STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1118

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 277

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 277 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and two hundred thirty-eight individuals.

Your Committee finds that the Governor has requested funding for various priority projects of the Department of Land and Natural Resources. Your Committee recognizes that the Department of Land and Natural Resources anticipates receiving $5,000,000 per year in additional revenue in the special land and development fund starting in fiscal year 2019-2020.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting provisions that appropriate $3,000,000 from the special land and development fund for each year of the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium for priority projects of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, as requested by the Governor.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 277, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 277, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair