STAND. COM. REP. NO.  251

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 722

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 722 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIPOA POINT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist the Department of Land and Natural Resources in its new acquisition of Lipoa point by establishing a Lipoa Point Management Council to collaborate with relevant agencies and entities and make recommendations on the development of Lipoa point.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Replacing specific named groups with community members for the Lipoa Point Management Council membership;

     (2)  Removing the Council's rule making exemption from chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 722, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 722, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair