Bill Text: HI HCR128 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Endangered Marine Animals; Report

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-03 - The committee(s) on OMH/WAL recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HCR128 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR128-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1259

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 128

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 128 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AN ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE'S ENDANGERED MARINE ANIMALS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request:

 

     (1)  The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide an annual report of the State's endangered marine life to the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

 

     (2)  The Department of Land and Natural Resources to make the report available to the public by posting the report to its website.

 

     A few individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and an individual provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting a provision that requests the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make an annual report on the State's endangered marine life available to the public by posting the report to its website; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 128, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 128, H.D. 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

		____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair