STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2866

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2573
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 2573, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SPECIAL FUNDS OF THE LAND
     DIVISION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to consolidate certain
special funds under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land
and Natural Resources to realize cost savings.

     The measure accomplishes this by abolishing the Department
of Land and Natural Resources' Industrial Park Special Fund and
directing the moneys collected thereunder, as well as fees and
fines collected under Chapter 183C (Conservation Districts),
Hawaii Revised Statutes, into the Department of Land and Natural
Resources' Special Land and Development Fund.

     Additionally, this measure appropriates funds out of the
special land and development fund to carry out the purposes of
the fund.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Land and Natural Resources.  The Office of Hawaiian
Affairs testified in opposition to the measure.

     Your Committee believes that the special fund consolidation
recommended by the measure will not adversely impact any programs

 
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currently funded by either special fund and will result in the
more efficient fiscal management of the programs and funding
mechanisms under the Department of Land and Natural Resources'
jurisdiction.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2573, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 2573, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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