Bill Text: HI HB1224 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission; Rehabilitation Trust Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1224 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1224-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  522

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1224

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1224 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KAHOOLAWE ISLAND RESERVE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to resume the long-term restoration of Kahoolawe by using a portion of state conveyance taxes to replenish the Kahoolawe Rehabilitation Trust Fund (Trust Fund).

 

     The Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by blanking out the percentage amount of state conveyance taxes to be paid into the Trust Fund.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1224, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1224, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair