STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1151

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 316

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 316, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE GREEN JOBS YOUTH CORPS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the continuation of the Green Jobs Youth Corps Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office; Hawaiʻi Forest Industry Association; Holomua Collaborative; Coalition Earth; Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo; Hawaiʻi Reef and Ocean Coalition; Hawaiʻi Farmers Union; Re-use Hawaiʻi; Kupu; 350Hawaii.org; Hawaiʻi Energy; Mālama Learning Center; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation Commission.

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. 316, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair