STAND. COM. REP. NO.  617-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2528

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2528 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A SHOOTING FACILITY IN WEST HAWAII ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for public outreach, planning, and an environmental impact statement for a Hawaii island public shooting facility.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources; Aha Moku Advisory Committee; The Society for Hawaii Heritage Animals; On Target, Inc.; Hawaii Rifle Association; and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Kohala Coast Resort Association and an individual opposed this measure.  

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

     Should the Committee on Finance further deliberate on this measure, your Committees respectfully request that it consider appropriating $800,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 for public outreach, planning, and an environmental impact statement for a public shooting facility in west Hawaii on the island of Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2528, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2528, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land,

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair