STAND. COM. REP. NO.  592-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2020

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2020 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CAUSES OF DECLINE IN LIMU AND REEF FISH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct and contract for studies to identify the causes of decline in limu and reef fish along the Ewa coast of Oahu.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Ho‘omana Pono, LLC, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstative amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $700,000 to contract a study on the decline in limu and reef fish along the Ewa coast of Oahu.

     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 H.B. No. 2020, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2020, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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KANIELA ING, Chair