STAND. COM. REP. NO. 87

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     S.B. No. 422

        S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 422 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make a housekeeping amendment to section 341-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to delete a reference to a repealed section.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development and the State Environmental Advisory Council.

 

     Your Committee finds that an inadvertent error was made with the enactment of Act 152, Session Laws of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2021.  Act 152 administratively transferred the Environmental Advisory Council from the Department of Health to the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, repealing certain sections of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.  However, section 341-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, still references section 341-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which was repealed by Act 152. This measure corrects this error.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 422, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 422, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture and Environment,

 

 

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair