Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2536 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to remove the sunset provision of the Act to make permanent amendments and repeals of certain fishing laws that were temporarily enacted.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

Act 85, Session Laws of Hawaii 1999, authorizes the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish administrative rules to manage the State's aquatic resources. The Department has started the process of rulemaking and wants assurance that its rulemaking authority will continue to be supported by laws such as Act 85.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to further discussion on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2536, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2536, S.D. 1.