Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, Energy and Environment, 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 in order to make permanent the deletion of statuary language regulating the taking of marine life, including minimum sizes for sale, catch limits, and closed seasons.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee has heard that the Department would regulate these provisions through rulemaking. As part of this process, the Department has held ten statewide public meetings, and has received favorable comments for the majority of its proposals.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2536, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.