Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2968, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to give the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) authority to implement a mandatory department-wide administrative hearing system.

For purposes of the public hearing and receiving testimony, your Committees circulated and made available for public review a proposed H.D. 1, that deleted the contents of this bill and inserted the provisions of H.B. No. 2496. The purpose of the proposed H.D. 1, is to clarify the conservation and resources enforcement authority of DLNR. Specifically, the proposed H.D. 1 clarifies:

The Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs testified in support of the proposed H.D. 1.

Your Committees find that this measure corrects inconsistencies and prior legislative oversights and clarifies DLNR's jurisdiction and enforcement authority which will further the conservation and resources enforcement activities of the State.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2968, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2968, S.D. 1,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.