STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2221

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2995

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2995 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and one individual.

Your Committee finds that vehicle access into remote areas of the County of Hawaii is necessary to patrol and enforce the law on the lands that the Department of Land and Natural Resources manages. This measure will provide resources to enable the upgrade and retrofitting of the vehicle fleet of the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement with better off-road capabilities to support the Department's important functions.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2995, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2995, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair