STAND. COM. REP. NO.  270-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2306

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2306 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE REVOLVING FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health to be deposited into the Environmental Response Revolving Fund to support environmental health activities and programs.  

The Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount to encourage further discussion; and

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

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests an appropriation amount of $2,600,000.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2306, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2306, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair