STAND. COM. REP. NO.  458-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2034

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2034 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission for projects, including restoration and preservation projects.  Specifically, this measure requires submission of a financial self-sufficiency and sustainability plan to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2017.

 

     Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission, a Maui Councilmember representing Molokai, the Conservation Council for Hawaii, the County of Maui Department of Planning, Protect Kahoolawe Ohana, the Aha Moku Advisory Committee, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure. The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies and one individual testified in opposition of this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount from $600,000 to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to December 24, 2088, to encourage further discussion.

 

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land respectfully request that it consider appropriating $600,000 for projects undertaken by the Kahoolawe island reserve commission.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2034, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2034, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

 

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KANIELA ING, Chair