Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 633, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $200,000 to match federal funds for the Hawaii Forestry and Communities Initiative.

The College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawaii (UH) at Manoa, College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management of UH-Hilo, and Hawaii Forest Industry Association submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitteed testimony in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose of continued discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 633, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 633, H.D. 2.