Bill Text: HI SB1220 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Lanai; Fisheries; Resource Management; Funding
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1220 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1220-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1115
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2011
RE: S.B. No. 1220
S.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1220, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FISHING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to implement a community-based fishery resource management area program (program) for the island of Lanai by:
(1) Designating the Lanai community-based fishery resource management area, consisting of all state waters and submerged lands around the island of Lanai; and
(2) Establishing the Lanai community-based fishery resource management area advisory committee to, among other things:
(A) Develop and implement a plan that provides for a management framework for fishery resources;
(B) Establish a community-based fishery resource management area system; and
(C) Promote the enforcement of fishing and gathering of marine resources according to the program.
The Sierra Club - Hawai‘i Chapter testified in support of this bill. Hawaiian Electric Company and Maui Electric Company testified in support of the intent of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and a concerned individual testified in opposition to this measure.
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 S.B. No. 1220, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading 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, Acting Chair |
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____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair |
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