Bill Text: HI SB2362 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Conservation Outreach; Hawaiian Monk Seals; Airline Public Service Announcements; Appropriation; Tourism Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-10 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2362 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2362-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2124

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2362

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2362 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION OUTREACH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to work in cooperation with the Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Tourism Authority to develop and air on incoming commercial flights to the State public service announcements about the State's fragile ecosystem and how to protect it.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by three organizations, and one state agency supports the intent.  Two state agencies submitted testimony in opposition.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that passengers on incoming commercial flights watch public service announcements including commercial activity advertisements.  Many visitors and residents take advantage of the advertised activities available in the State's ocean waters and beaches, and need to be properly informed of what to do if, for example, they come across a Hawaiian monk seal.  The State needs to impress upon all those who enter the State the importance of taking care of our unique and fragile ecosystem.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Moving the project from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Hawaii Tourism Authority; and

 

     (2)  Including a blank appropriation section to fund the project from the Hawaii Tourism Authority's tourism special fund.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2362, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2362, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair