Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2805 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the time period allotted for the Hawaii Sustainability Task Force (task force) to complete the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan by one year.

Specifically, the measure amends Act 8, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2005 (Act 8), by extending:

Your Committee finds that Act 8 authorized the creation of the task force to review the Hawaii State Plan and the State's planning process and required the Office of the Auditor to prepare the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan.

In December 2005, the task force submitted its first report to the Legislature, which indicated that, among other things, the process of creating the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan would require a significant amount of planning and coordination, hence the need for the amendments contained in this measure.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2805, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2805, S.D. 1.