STAND. COM. REP. NO.  598

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2019

 

RE:   H.B. No. 454

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 454 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KAHOOLAWE ISLAND RESERVE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support native dryland forest restoration, management, and maintenance on Kahoolawe Island Reserve by appropriating $3,000,000 for certain activities, personnel, services, materials, and supplies.

 

     The Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission, County of Maui, Ocean Tourism Coalition, Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and many individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 454, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 454, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

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NICOLE E. LOWEN, Chair

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair