STAND. COM. REP. NO.  361

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1156

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1156 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys, as matching funds, to fund the operational costs of conducting a journey through the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and the production of related educational materials.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources and several individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.

     You Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Specifying the various agencies and entities required to provide matching funds in under to secure general fund appropriations for the journey through the Pacific Island Marine National Monument project;

(2)  Requiring that the specified agencies and entities enter into a memorandum of agreement detailing their financial obligations and payment schedules;

(3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1156, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1156, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair