STAND. COM. REP. NO.  593-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2543

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2543 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A SHOOTING RANGE IN WEST HAWAII ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the availability of safe, recreational shooting by appropriating an unspecified amount of funds to plan, design, and construct a shooting range in West Hawaii on the Island of Hawaii.

     The County of Hawaii, Hawaii County Council, Hawaii Island Public Shooting Range Working Group, Valley Isle Sport Shooters, Hawaii Rifle Association, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2543 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair