STAND. COM. REP. NO.  370

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1029

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1029 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY COMMITTEE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the composition of the Endangered Species Recovery Committee by replacing the Director of the University of Hawaii Environmental Center or the Director's designee with the Dean of the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Natural Sciences, or the Dean's designee.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources and a concerned individual supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1029 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair