STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2678

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2678

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys for the Aha Moku Advisory Committee.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Aha Moku Advisory Committee.

     Your Committee finds that the Aha Moku Advisory Committee was established in 2012 to advise the Department of Land and Natural Resources on issues related to indigenous land and natural resource management techniques.  Your Committee notes that the Aha Moku Advisory Committee did not receive any appropriations for fiscal year 2013-2014.  Your Committee believes that making an appropriation to the Aha Moku Advisory Committee for fiscal year 2014-2015 will allow it to continue to engage Hawaiian communities and the general public in promoting the sustainability of Hawaii's natural and cultural resources.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair