STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2910

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2910
                                        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. 2910 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 make the commercial fisheries
special fund permanent.

     Your Committee finds that, over the past four years, the
commercial fisheries special fund has served to improve the
management of commercial fishing and related licensing programs.
Based on the fund's success, and with assurances from the
Department of Land and Natural Resources that ceded land revenue
issues will be addressed appropriately, your Committee finds that
it is in the public interest to make the commercial fisheries
special fund permanent.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the amount
appropriated and by making technical changes which have no
substantive effect.

     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.

 
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2910, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2910, 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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