STAND. COM. REP. NO.  749-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2020

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2020, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CAUSES OF DECLINE IN LIMU AND REEF FISH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct and contract for studies to identify the causes of decline in limu and reef fish along the Ewa coast of Oahu.

 

     Hoomana Pono, LLC and a few individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Kalihi Palama Hawaiian Civic Club, the Ewa Limu Project, and Kuaaina Ulu Auamo provided comments.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2020, 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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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair