STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1001-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2909
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
S.B. No. 2909, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE PARKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to replace the `Aina Ho`omalu
Special Fund with the State Packs Special Fund to carry out
program objectives.

     This bill repeals the `Aina Ho`omalu Special Fund and
replaces it with a new special fund with authority to make
expenditures for construction, repair and replacement, and
maintenance of all state parks, as well as for administrative and
staff costs and for state parks program development.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) and the
Environmental Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa
testified in support of this bill.

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) testified in opposition
of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that the `Aina Ho`omalu State Parks
Program was established as an interpretive program focusing on
"Parks of Distinction" within DLNR's Division of State Parks.
The `Aina Ho`omalu Special Fund, with revenues generated by the
State Parks System, currently finances the program.

 
 
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     Revenues generated by the State Parks System would deposited
into a Special Parks Special Fund would give DLNR greater
flexibility to allocate revenues to benefit all State Parks
Programs, including continued support of the `Aina Ho`omalu State
Parks Program, supplementing general fund appropriations.
Currently, special fund moneys in excess of budgeted amounts have
from time to time been transferred to the general fund.

     Your Committee amended this bill by including the planning
and development of interpretive programs and construction of
interpretive facilities in the Aina Ho'omalu State Parks Program.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.
No. 2909, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2909, S.D.
1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair