STAND. COM. REP. NO.  57-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1553

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1553 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE AHA MOKU ADVISORY COMMITTEE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for:

     (1)  The administrative and operational expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee; and

     (2)  Community education on the administrative structure regarding the aha moku system and on natural and cultural resource management.

The Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; Aha Moku, Moku O Kanaloa; Aha Moku, Moku O Puna; Aha Moku, Moku O Palaa‘u; and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments on this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1553 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 Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair

____________________________ FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair