STAND. COM. REP. NO.  960-24

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2024

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1841

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1841, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for operating expenses, equipment, the establishment of positions, and capital improvement projects to support wildfire emergency response, prevention, and post-fire restoration.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; State Fire Council; Hawaii Fire Department; Democratic Party of Hawaii; and The Nature Conservancy.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the number of full-time equivalent positions established by this measure to an unspecified number.

 

     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. 1841, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1841, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair