STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2388

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2064

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2064 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KOA TREES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Board of Land and Natural Resources to identify all private and public lands suitable for the planting of koa trees; and

(2) Authorize the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue licenses to applicants desiring to plant, care for, and harvest koa trees in certain circumstances.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committees find that this measure would allow individuals to plant and harvest koa trees on private and public lands. Your Committees further find, however, that the Department of Land and Natural Resources lacks the appropriate jurisdiction to regulate the planting and harvesting of koa trees on private lands.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by limiting its jurisdiction to public lands.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2064, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2064, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Water and Land,

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

________________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair