Bill Text: HI HB679 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Parks Special Fund; Central Service Expenses; Use of Funds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB679 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB679-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  23

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 679

      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. 679 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE PARKS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the five percent reduction from the State Parks Special Fund to increase the amount of funds available for construction, repairs, replacement, additions, and extensions of state park facilities.

 

     The Hawaii Tourism Authority and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting the provisions of House Bill No. 680, in an attempt to consolidate two measures that seek to make changes to the State Parks Special Fund to make it more effective in providing funding for the beautification, repair, and maintenance of Hawaii's state parks.  Specifically, this bill has been amended by including as an authorized expenditure from the State Parks Special Fund, payment of the debt service on revenue bonds that are issued for the construction, repairs, replacement, additions, and extensions of state park facilities.

 

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made 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. 679, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 679, 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,

 

 

		____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair