STAND. COM. REP. NO.  99-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   H.B. No. 2013

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2013 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to upgrade the trucks of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement that are currently in use in Hawaii County.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, and an individual supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend the sums appropriated by this measure within one year of the effective date of the measure; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 2013, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2013, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair