STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1022-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2446

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2446, 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:

(1) Appropriate funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources for twenty-eight full-time equivalent positions in Parks Administration and Operation to implement a visitor reservation system in Hawaii's state parks; and

(2) Appropriate funds out of the State Parks Special Fund to be expended by the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the management of Hawaii's state parks.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii State Aha Moku, Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, and two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts;

(2) Changing the positions to be established to an unspecified number; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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. 2446, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2446, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair