Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 3034 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to preserve and protect Hawaii's natural environment through consistent and uniform application of the state's environmental laws by establishing environmental courts within the circuit courts to hear cases and preside over other administrative proceedings relating to environmental law.

The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Judiciary opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill 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. 3034, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3034, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.