STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2710

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2909
                                        S.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 S.B.
No. 2909 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a new State Parks
Special Fund to replace the existing `Aina Ho`omalu Special Fund.

     This measure 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.

     Your Committee finds that in creating the new State Parks
Special Fund, the broader scope of permissible expenditures for
the new special fund will allow the most basic needs of our
neglected parks to get priority funding.  In contrast, the `Aina
Ho`omalu Special Fund focused primarily on supporting
interpretive programs in those "Parks of Distinction" in the
State park system.  The new state parks special fund will allow
consideration of the needs of all state parks through the park
system.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by changing the amount appropriated to an unspecified amount

 
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to facilitate continuing discussion on this matter and by making
technical, nonsubstantive changes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2909, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2909, S.D. 1.

                                 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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