STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1500

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1368

H.D. 1

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 Water and Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1368, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate or authorize funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources' natural area reserves and watershed management program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and The Nature Conservancy Hawai‘i.

Your Committee finds that funds appropriated for the natural area reserves and watershed management program will allow the Department of Land and Natural Resources to remove the hooved animals remaining within recently constructed fence units in order to protect native forest species and allow the expenditure of funds gained by revenue generation from parking fees at the ‘Āhihi Kina‘u Natural Area Reserve. This measure expresses programs or positions, maximum sums appropriated or authorized, or means of financing indicated for the Department of Land and Natural Resources' natural area reserves and watershed management program to be incorporated into the General Appropriations Act of 2019, or other appropriate legislative vehicle, or to be adopted separately.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making it effective upon approval; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

Your Committee requests that if your Committee on Ways and Means passes this measure that it consider incorporating the items in this measure into the appropriate legislative vehicle or amend this measure to include any provisions necessary to effectuate its purpose and intent.

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 H.B. No. 1368, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1368, H.D. 1, 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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KAIALI'I KAHELE, Chair