STAND. COM. REP. NO.  139-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2365

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2365 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to protect Hawaii's fragile environment while providing Hawaii's workforce with much needed jobs by establishing an Emergency Environmental Workforce (Workforce).

     A concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Good Shepherd Foundation, and a concerned individual testified in opposition to this measure.  The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii provided comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the provision appropriating funds for the establishment of the Workforce; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2365, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2365, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair

____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair