Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 819 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide that certain funds collected under chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be deposited into the Hawaii historic preservation special fund.

Specifically, this measure provides that:

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Your Committee received comments from the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation.

Your Committee finds that recent legislation authorized the department to assess penalties, fines, and other administrative charges under chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Your Committee finds that this measure clarifies that the Department of Land and Natural Resources shall deposit penalties, fines, and other collected charges into the Hawaii Historic Preservation Special Fund and that the department may expend special fund moneys to defray operating and administrative costs. Your Committee believes that this measure will improve the department's ability to administer the state historic preservation program.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 819 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.