Bill Text: HI HB1778 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Walking Trails; Piilani Trail; Designation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and Bertram, Cabanilla, Takumi excused (3). [HB1778 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1778-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  374-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1778

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1778 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WALKING TRAILS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to direct Na Ala Hele Program (Program) of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to designate public lands from Kaupo to Kapalua along the Pi'ilani trail as an important Hawaiian coastal cultural heritage corridor, and to study the establishment, repair, and preservation of the trail for public use.

 

     The Maui County Council and Kanaka Council Moku O Keawe testified in support of this bill.  DLNR opposed this measure.  The Representative of the 11^th District and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs provided comments.

 

     Your Committee notes DLNR's budgetary concerns, but also finds that the Maui community is excited about the prospect of protecting this cultural resource that is important to the history of the Hawaiian people.  Given the current restraints on the state budget, your Committee recommends that any funds necessary to carry out this project should be raised through community efforts to avoid placing further strains on the current budget crisis.

     Further, concerns were raised that increased public access to this historical resource raises the potential risk of damage to sacred areas.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by adding a requirement to consult the Hawaiian community when establishing, repairing, and preserving the trail for public use.

 

     Your Committee has also amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Correctly reflecting the intent of this bill to actually designate the public lands from Kaupo to Kapalua along the Pi'ilani trail as an important Hawaiian coastal cultural heritage corridor, and not merely to study its feasibility;

 

(2)  Deleting Program reporting requirements to the Legislature that would have included a proposed budget;

 

(3)  Changing the effective date to upon its approval; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1778, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1778, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair