STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1039-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2594

H.D. 2

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. 2594, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission to restore, preserve, and determine the appropriate uses of the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve for the people of Hawaii, and to fund one full-time equivalent cultural resource project coordinator to manage, protect, and restore the archeological and historical resources of Kaho‘olawe.

The Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission, a County of Maui Councilmember, Hawaiian Affairs Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Ocean Tourism Coalition, Old Lahaina Lu‘au, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the sums appropriated to unspecified amounts;

(2) Changing the number of positions to be funded to an unspecified number; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2594, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2594, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair