STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1227

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 897

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 897, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife (LNR172) for Fiscal Biennium 2019-2021.

The Hawaii State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, Kaua‘i Fire Department, O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and Hawaii Cattlemen's Council testified in support of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation and position amounts to unspecified amounts; and

(2) 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. 897, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 897, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair