STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1699

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 808

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 808, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the operational expenses and staffing costs of the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts.

The Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts, East Kauai Soil and Water Conservation District, West Kauai Soil and Water Conservation District, South Oahu Soil and Water Conservation District, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Maui Chamber of Commerce, Local Food Coalition, Edmund C. Olson Trust II, Ka'u Soil and Water Conservation District, Waiakea Soil and Water Conservation District, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Maui County Farm Bureau, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO provided comments.

     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 S.B. No. 808, S.D. 1, 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