STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3448

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1029

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 1029, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY COMMITTEE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the composition of the Endangered Species Recovery Committee by replacing the Director of the University of Hawaii Environmental Center or the Director's designee with the Dean of the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Natural Sciences or the Dean's designee.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and University of Hawai‘i System.

     Your Committees find that due to a reorganization of the University of Hawaii Environmental Center, the University's College of Natural Sciences now has better resources and expertise than the University's Environmental Center for the level of commitment and type of analysis that the Endangered Species Recovery Committee requires.  Your Committees therefore find that this measure improves the composition of the Endangered Species Recovery Committee by replacing the representative from the University's Environmental Center with a representative from the University's College of Natural Sciences.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making it effective upon its approval.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1029, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1029, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair