STAND. COM. REP. NO.  30-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2037

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, 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, the Trust for Public Land, Conservation Council of Hawaii, Humane Society of the United States-Hawaii, and Kua‘aina Ulu ‘Auamo provided testimony in support of this measure.

     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. 2037 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Tourism.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair