STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1472-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.C.R. No. 65

      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 Finance, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 65 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO ESTABLISH A TASK FORCE TO ASSIST WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF RULES TO ENSURE GREATER PROTECTION OF THE STATE'S OCEAN RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a task force to assist with the development of rules to ensure greater protection of the state's ocean resources.

Your Committee has amended this measure by removing the 2016 and 2017 reporting dates required of the task force.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 65, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 65, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair