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. 2806, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to be expended by the Auditor for the preparation of the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan.

Your Committee finds that Act 8, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, authorized the creation of the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability 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, and in the report, the task force determined that, among other things, the process to create the 2050 Sustainability Plan should include research and data gathering, community input and outreach, and activities to educate the public. Although Act 8 appropriated $100,000 in each of two fiscal years to create the 2050 Sustainability Plan, your Committee finds that this previously appropriated amount may be inadequate to accomplish Act 8's objectives. Accordingly, this measure provides a vehicle to appropriate the necessary funding to accomplish the task force's goals and objectives.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

to facilitate continued discussion on this issue.

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. 2806, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2806, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.