STAND. COM. REP. NO.  611-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2620

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2620, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support environmental protection and prevention efforts by requiring and appropriating funds for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to prepare a report that updates its 1996 report, "Hawaii's Readiness to Prevent and Respond to Oil Spills" and submit it to the Legislature prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2016.

The Department of Health and an individual supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2620, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair