Bill Text: HI HB785 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Land Conservation Fund; Purposes of Expenditures

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB785 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB785-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  432

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 785

 

 

 

 

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. 785 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to temporarily require the revenues of the Land Conservation Fund (Fund) from the conveyance tax to be used for invasive species control and mitigation, reforestation, and sediment run-off mitigation, and appropriates funds from the Fund for those purposes.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Trust for Public Land, and Hawaiian Islands Land Trust opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that this bill will create job opportunities by appropriating funds for those public purposes and further finds that employing individuals will generate more economic activity within the State than acquiring land from entities or individuals with presumably higher incomes.

 

     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. 785 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair