STAND. COM. REP. NO. 864-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2595

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. 2595, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATERSHEDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct improvements, repairs, and maintenance of watersheds throughout the State.

The Honolulu Board of Water Supply, The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i, West Maui Mountains Watershed Partnership, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, Kaua‘i Watershed Alliance, Hawai‘i Association of Watershed Partnerships, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Sierra Club of Hawai‘i, and a few 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. 2595, 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