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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE KAHOOLAWE ISLAND RESERVE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The Kahoolawe island reserve commission is funded predominantly by a dwindling trust fund created in 1994 during the federal unexploded ordnance cleanup of Kahoolawe. This federal appropriation, totaling $44,000,000 over a period of several years, even though considerable, was not substantial enough to establish a sustainable endowment for the long-term restoration of Kahoolawe.
As stated in the federally-mandated Kahoolawe island conveyance commission final report to Congress in 1993, "in the short term, federal funds will provide the bulk of the program support for specific soil conservation projects and related activities. In the longer term, however, state revenues will be needed to continue and enhance those activities initiated with federal funds". For the past sixteen years, the initial federal funding has allowed the Kahoolawe island reserve commission to establish many of its innovative programs that emphasize ancestral and traditional knowledge, utilize a cultural approach of respect and connectivity to the environment, and integrate ancient and modern resource management techniques.
The purpose of this Act is to direct the deposit of a percentage of the conveyance tax into the Kahoolawe rehabilitation trust fund to provide a continuous source of state funding for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the Kahoolawe island reserve.
SECTION 2. Section 247-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§247-7 Disposition of taxes. All taxes collected under this chapter shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general fund of the State, to be used and expended for the purposes for which the general fund was created and exists by law; provided that of the taxes collected each fiscal year:
(1) Ten per cent shall be paid into the land conservation fund established pursuant to section 173A-5;
(2) Twenty-five per cent from July 1, 2009, until
June 30, 2012, and thirty per cent in each fiscal year thereafter shall be
paid into the rental housing trust fund established by section 201H-202; [and]
(3) Twenty per cent from July 1, 2009, until June 30, 2012, and twenty-five per cent in each fiscal year thereafter shall be paid into the natural area reserve fund established by section 195-9; provided that the funds paid into the natural area reserve fund shall be annually disbursed by the department of land and natural resources in the following priority:
(A) To natural area partnership and forest stewardship programs after joint consultation with the forest stewardship committee and the natural area reserves system commission;
(B) [Projects] To projects
undertaken in accordance with watershed management plans pursuant to section
171-58 or watershed management plans negotiated with private landowners, and
management of the Hawaii natural area reserves system pursuant to
section 195-3; and
(C) [The] To the youth
conservation corps established under chapter 193[.]; and
(4) Ten per cent shall be paid into the Kahoolawe rehabilitation trust fund established by section 6K‑9.5."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2011.
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Report Title:
Kahoolawe Conveyance Tax
Description:
Apportions ten per cent of the conveyance tax to the Kahoolawe rehabilitation trust fund.
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