Bill Text: HI SCR157 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Hawaiian Sandalwood; Conservation and Regulation of Harvesting; Task Force

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-05 - (H) Referred to WLO, FIN, referral sheet 60 [SCR157 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR157-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3130

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 157

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Agriculture, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 157 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TASK FORCE TO EXAMINE STATE REGULATION OF THE HARVESTING OF HAWAIIAN SANDALWOOD,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the establishment of a task force to examine state regulation of the harvesting of Hawaiian sandalwood.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, JAWMIN, LLC, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Agribusiness Development Corporation, and four individuals.  The Nature Conservancy submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees find that it is in the best interest of the State to establish regulations for the harvest of Hawaiian sandalwood after due consideration of scientific research findings and other information regarding the distribution and population of Hawaiian sandalwood.  Establishing a task force to examine state regulation of the harvesting of Hawaiian sandalwood is the first step to creating a sustainable environment for this rare but highly valuable tree.  In order for the task force to accomplish its goals, your Committees estimate that $40,000 is needed.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting The Nature Conservancy from the task force;

 

     (2)  Adding to the task force one representative each from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, University of Hawaii, and a landowner who sustainably harvests sandalwood;

 

     (3)  Deleting the agribusiness exemption;

 

     (4)  Requiring the task force to conduct a thorough inventory of sandalwood in the State;

 

     (5)  Requiring the report to be submitted to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2013, rather than 2014; and

 

     (6)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 157, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 157, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Agriculture,

 

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

 

 

 

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