STAND. COM. REP. NO.  286-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2037

      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 Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 2037 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate money to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for hosting the 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress meeting at the Hawaii Convention Center in September 2016.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources; Aha Moku Advisory Committee; The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii; Conservation Council for Hawaii; Kuaaina Ulu Auamo; National Tropical Botanical Garden; The Trust for the Public Land; Humane Society of the U.S.-Hawaii; Diamond Head State Monument Foundation; Hawaii Center for Food Safety; Outrigger Hotels Hawaii; the President of the World Conservation Congress, National Host Committee/Hawaii 2016;  Hawaii Lodging and Tourism Association; and a few concerned individuals supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2021, to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2037, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2037, H.D. 1.

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

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TOM BROWER, Chair