STAND. COM. REP. NO.  840

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 324

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 324, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to preserve the culturally and historically rich area of South Kona on the island of Hawaii by establishing the South Kona Wilderness Area to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General opposed this bill.  DLNR, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and The Resort Group provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to promote further discussion; and

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

     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. 324, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 324, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair