STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1000

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1537

H.D. 1

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. 1537, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF MAUNA KEA MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for an unspecified number of full-time equivalent positions within the Office of Mauna Kea Management to fulfill the mandates of Mauna Kea's Comprehensive Management Plan.

The Office of Mauna Kea Management, Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, Maunakea Observatories, Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce, Hawaii Island Economic Development Board, David S. De Luz, Sr. Enterprises, Inc., Pana‘ewa Hawaiian Home Lands Community Association, and many individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.

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. 1537, 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