STAND. COM. REP. NO.  988-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2678

      S.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys for the Aha Moku Advisory Committee to be expended for administration and community education purposes.

The Aha Moku Advisory Committee, Hawaiian Affairs Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, The Nature Conservancy, and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments on this measure.

     Should your Committee on Finance consider this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that $110,000 be appropriated to the Aha Moku Advisory Committee with requirements that $75,000 be expended for administrative costs and $35,000 be expended for community education purposes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair