STAND. COM. REP. NO.  618-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1972

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1972 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to limit the fees that the Department of Land and Natural Resources may charge related to its comprehensive historic preservation program to amounts sufficient to cover the annual operating costs of the program, taking into account all other sources of program income.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of this measure.  The Society for Hawaiian Archaeology provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, for the purpose of facilitating future discussion.

 

     Your Committees note that this measure is not intended to affect any aspect or effect of the existing memoranda of understanding between the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Mookini Heiau.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1972, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1972, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair