Bill Text: HI SB2340 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii Senate Bill 2340 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Kaneohe Bay Regional Council; Meeting; Report

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-13 - (S) Act 019, 4/13/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 475). [SB2340 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2340-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 989-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2010

RE: S.B. No. 2340

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 2340, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KANEOHE BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to continue to protect the natural resources and environment of Kaneohe Bay while maintaining fiscal prudence by:

(1) Repealing requirements that the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) use state funds and resources to provide meeting places and staffing for Kaneohe Bay Regional Council (Council) meetings;

(2) Requiring the Council to meet annually instead of quarterly and to report on its activities annually instead of semi-annually; and

(3) Repealing the sunset of the Council scheduled for July 1, 2010.

Several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. DLNR opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date from June 30, 2050, to upon its approval; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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 S.B. No. 2340, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2340, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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KEN ITO, Chair