Bill Text: HI HB2520 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Watershed Protection; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-16 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and M. Lee, Souki excused (2). [HB2520 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2520-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  470-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2520

      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 Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2520 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the immediate protection of priority watershed forest to replenish Hawaii's water supplies and provide benefits to Hawaii's environmental health.

 

     The Governor; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Honolulu Board of Water Supply; The Trust for Public Land; Parker Ranch, Inc.; The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i; Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.; Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter; Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species; Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii; Hawaii's Thousand Friends; Conservation Council for Hawaii; and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Good Shepherd Foundation and four individuals opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2520, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2520, 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 Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair