STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2021

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2161

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2161 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AHA MOKU ADVISORY COMMITTEE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the administration and operation of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee and for community outreach.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Aha Moku Advisory Committee, Hookipa Network Kauai, Aha Moku Kauai, Poo Moku Koolau, the Koolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and twenty-one individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding community outreach as a permissible use of the appropriated funds in section 2 and removing the appropriation in section 3 for community outreach; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2161, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2161, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, and Agriculture,

________________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair

________________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair