Bill Text: HI HB1144 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Endangered Species

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1144 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1144-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  682

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1144

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1144 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION OF THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to encourage greater participation in endangered species restoration by private landowners by statutorily authorizing the development and use of programmatic safe harbor agreements (SHAs) and programmatic habitat conservation plans (HCPs) and the tools, such as certificates of inclusion, needed to implement them.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism testified in support of this bill.  The Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter and Earthjustice opposed this measure.  A concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Endangered Species Recovery Committee (ESRC) currently plays an important role in ensuring the success of proposed HCPs and SHAs.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by making the issuance of certificates of inclusion provided for in programmatic SHAs and HCPs to extend the coverage of the incidental take license to landowners enrolling in the programmatic plan at a later date, contingent on the review and approval of the ESRC.

 

Your Committee has further amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to June 20, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1144, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1144, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

		____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair