STAND. COM. REP. NO. 943-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2910
                                     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 Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources, to
which was referred S.B. No. 2910, S.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 convert the designation of
the Commercial Fisheries Special Fund (Special Fund) from
temporary to permanent duration to ensure continued support and
funding for commercial fisheries programs and activities.

     Currently, all fees collected from the sale of commercial
fishing permits and licenses are deposited into this temporary
Special Fund.  Making the Special Fund permanent would ensure the
long-term planning and funding for licensing of commercial
fishers, commercial fisheries management, and their related
markets.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) strongly
supported this bill and recommended that an amount be inserted to
be expended from the Special Fund.  The Office of Hawaiian
Affairs opposed passage of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Allowing DLNR to deposit monetary contributions into
          the Special Fund;

 
 
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     (2)  Appropriating $150,000 to be expended from the Special
          Fund; and

     (3)  Making technical changes which have no substantive
          effect.

     Your Committee finds that it is in the public interest to
make the Special Fund permanent.  Additionally, this bill will
enable the DLNR to continue programs and activities related to
commercial fisheries.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2910, S.D. 1, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2910, 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 Ocean Recreation
                                   and Marine Resources,



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                                   ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair