STAND. COM. REP. NO.  485

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 450

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 450 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CORAL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to study the effects of sunscreen on coral reefs in Hawaii waters and submit a report to the Legislature.

 

     The University of Hawaii, Department of Health, Department of Land and Natural Resources, a member of the Maui County Council, Ocean Tourism Coalition, The Nature Conservancy, Democratic Party of Hawaii, Graduate Student Organization at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and three concerned individuals supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by amending the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 450, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 450, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

 

 

 

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair