STAND. COM. REP. NO. 306

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 Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 316 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 Department of Land and Natural Resources; Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission; Hawai‘i State Energy Office; Malama Pupukea-Waimea; Kupu; Kua‘āina Ulu ‘Auamo; Re-use Hawaii; 350Hawaii.org; Coalition Earth; Hawai‘i Farmers Union; Holomua Collaborative; Hawai‘i Reef and Ocean Coalition; Climate Protectors Hawai‘i; The Nature Conservancy, Hawai‘i and Palmyra; and five individuals.

Your Committee finds that youth and young adults face higher unemployment rates, which can negatively impact their long-term well-being. To address this, the State has assisted in providing greater work opportunities to youth and young adults in sustainability-related fields through the Green Jobs Youth Corps Program. This measure continues and supports the Program, which has proven successful in providing conservation and sustainability-related work experiences for young adults.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $6,000,000.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 316, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 316, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair