Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1536 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $210,026 in state matching funds for the Ala Wai trash trap cleanup project.

The Hawaii Boaters Political Action Association and a concerned individual testified in support of the bill. The Department of Health provided comments on the bill.

Your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the appropriation amount to facilitate further discussion of the measure. Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for style, consistency, and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1536, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1536, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.