STAND. COM. REP. NO.1214-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2900

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2900, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to continue the Emergency Environmental Workforce that employs individuals who lost their jobs because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, to combat pestilent plants and other organisms.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, County of Maui, Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Maui Invasive Species Committee, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, and several concerned citizens testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2900, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair