STAND. COM. REP. NO.  750-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2034

      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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2034, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission for restoration and preservation projects and to require submission of a financial self-sufficiency and sustainability plan to the Legislature.

The Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission, Aha Moku Advisory Committee, County of Maui Department of Planning, and many individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies provided testimony in opposition.  Two individuals provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2034, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair