STAND. COM. REP. NO. 749________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 180
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
180 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AN ALIEN SPECIES
     COORDINATOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to
establish a permanent alien species coordinator position.

     Life of the Land and Maui Pineapple Company testified in
support of the bill.  The Department of Land and Natural
Resources testified in support of the intent of the measure.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the
appropriation.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
180, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 180, H.D. 1.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair