STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3393

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2569
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2569, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMERCIAL FISHERIES
     SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make the commercial fisheries
special fund permanent.

     Specifically, this bill establishes the fund as a permanent
part of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.  This measure then repeals
Act 220, Session Laws of Hawaii 1996, which had established the
fund provisionally with a repeal date of June 30, 2001.

     Furthermore, this measure expands the purposes of the fund
by authorizing expenditures for department payroll.  Lastly, this
measure transfers unencumbered funds from the temporary fund to
the permanent fund and makes an appropriation out of the
permanent fund.

     Your Committee finds that commercial fishing programs should
continue to benefit directly from the fees and other moneys paid
into the fund by commercial fishers.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2569, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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