STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2089

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2175
                                        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 S.B. No. 2175 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish the Youth
Conservation Corps.

     Specifically, the bill allows the governor to utilize moneys
appropriated to any department, regardless of the original
purpose of the appropriation, to support and implement the Youth
Conservation Corps program.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Land and Natural Resources.  The Department of Land
and Natural Resources did, however, voice its concern over the
use of moneys in the Natural Area Reserve Fund to fund the Youth
Conservation Corps program. 

     Your Committee finds that the Youth Conservation Corps is a
service learning program for students in high school and college.
The program was designed to provide a holistic viewpoint of
resource management based on the Hawaiian ahupua`a concept,
whereby the protection of the resources are looked at in a more
interactive way.  Students work alongside resource managers in
the field, obtaining "hands on" experience in resource management
skills.  In addition to learning about resource management,

 
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students learn life skills such as leadership, communication,
team building, and personal responsibility.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by adding two sections
that amend the existing version of section 247-7, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, and the version of section 247-7 that will take effect
on July 1, 2001, to include the Youth Conservation Corps as an
authorized expenditure of moneys derived from the conveyance tax.

     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 S.B. No. 2175, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 2175, 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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