STAND. COM. REP. NO. 994

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1178
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1178, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department
of Land and Natural Resources to sell or take action to cause the
sale of any perishable natural resource that has been seized as
part of a fishing violation. 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), the
University's Environmental Center, BOATS/Hawaii Inc., and one
individual.

     Your Committee finds that this measure would save the State
both time and the expense of storage of perishable catches of
aquatic life, with the proceeds to be placed into an account for
holding.  Your Committee is supportive of the intent of this
measure to give DLNR additional flexibility in enforcement and
management of aquatic resources.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its
contents in their entirely and replacing them with the contents
of a companion measure, S.B. No. 1088, S.D. 1, heard earlier by
this Committee.  As amended, this measure deletes the language

 
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regarding forfeiture to the State of any seized item other than a
natural resource, in Section 199-7(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1178, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 1178, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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