STAND. COM. REP. NO. 411-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2545
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to
which was referred H.B. No. 2545 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
     EDUCATION FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to delete the requirement that
amounts in excess of $300,000 in the environmental health
education fund on June 30 of each year be transferred to the
general fund.

     The bill also would delete the existing cap on the use of
the fund for administration purposes and expand the use of the
fund to support program activities other than education.

     Your Committee acknowledges the concern noted by the
University of Hawaii's Environmental Center that the deletion of
the cap on administration costs could result, theoretically, in
almost all of the money in the fund being used for administration
purposes.

     Your Committee has amended the bill, at page 2 lines 8-9, to
clarify that the program activities for which the fund may be
used to provide fiscal support are those program activities

 
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defined by section 321-27(b).  Your Committee has also made
technical nonsubstantive corrections.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2545, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
2545, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Energy and
                                   Environmental Protection,



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                                   HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair

 
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