STAND. COM. REP. NO. 932-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2044

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2044, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KEKAHA KAI STATE PARK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to hire four full-time equivalent permanent state lifeguards to be located at Kua Bay, Kekaha Kai State Park, and to purchase equipment to be used by the lifeguards.

The Mayor for the County of Hawai‘i, Councilmember representing District 8 of the Hawai‘i County Council, Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, Daniel R. Sayre Memorial Foundation, Kohala Coast Resort Association, and two concerned individuals supported this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2044, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair