Bill Text: HI HB2250 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Environmental Workforce; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-17 - (S) Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 612). [HB2250 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2250-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  364-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2250

      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 Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2250 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for an emergency environmental workforce to provide short-term employment for individuals who are unemployed or underemployed due to the slow economic recovery so as to assist the State's efforts to protect watersheds and eradicate invasive species.

 

     Alexander & Baldwin testified in support of this measure.  The Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii and the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and The Nature Conservancy opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2250, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2250, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair