Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3063, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support programs of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) that benefit the environment by establishing a program to develop environmentally-themed products for sale to the public and from which the revenues are to be deposited into the Natural Area Reserve Fund.

Hawaii's Thousand Friends submitted testimony in support of this bill. DLNR submitted testimony in support of this bill with amendments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by clarifying that products developed under the new program shall require the approval of the chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

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. 3063, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3063, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.