Bill Text: HI HB1944 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriation; Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Okamura, Say excused (2). [HB1944 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1944-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  23-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1944

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1944 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR 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 to assist the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts with staffing and operating costs.

 

     The PUNA Soil and Water Conservation District, the Hawaii Farm Bureau, the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying an appropriation figure of $1 for staffing and operating costs of the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 1944, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1944, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair