Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to add violations of the law on historic preservation to those violations for which small businesses may not receive a waiver or reduction of civil penalties and fines, and to specify which environmental laws also fit into that category.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Chapter of the Sierra Club, and Hawaii Audubon Society submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee agrees with the intent of this bill and finds that it will help to protect Hawaii's precious environmental and cultural resources.

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. 2074, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.