Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 760 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote public use of beaches by appropriating an unspecified amount of funds to survey and map all existing public access ways to shoreline areas throughout the state.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a member of the Maui County Council, and Life of the Land supported this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 760 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.