Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2599, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to continue the efforts of the emergency environmental workforce to improve the State's economy by employing citizens to protect the environment.

Your Committee finds that under Act 4, Third Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, the Legislature established an emergency environmental workforce for short-term employment for individuals who lost their jobs. The intent of that Act was to assist those people who were displaced as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States.

Your Committee agrees with the intent of this measure, which appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to continue the emergency environmental workforce. Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive change.

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 H.B. No. 2599, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2599, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.