Bill Text: HI HB665 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 665 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Natural Resources; Forfeiture

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB665 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB665-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 578

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2009

RE: H.B. No. 665

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. 665 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FORFEITURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that forfeiture laws apply to violations of conservation and resources statutes and rules and to the protection of caves, historic preservation, and the Kahoolawe Island Reserve.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Historic Hawaii Foundation testified in support of this bill. The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Adding a provision that violators of Kahoolawe Island Reserve statutes may also be subject to civil remedies of forfeiture, in addition to criminal penalties; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments 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. 665, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 665, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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KEN ITO, Chair