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. 2493 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to implement an internal civil violations system through administrative rules.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from DLNR and the Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter.

Your Committee finds that this measure will provide a flexible and economical means to resolve regulatory violations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 2493, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2493, H.D. 1.