Bill Text: HI HB1793 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Native Forest Resources; Sandalwood; DLNR

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB1793 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1793-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  192-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1793

      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. 1793 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect native species of sandalwood trees by:

 

     (1)  Requiring a permit to export raw or unprocessed sandalwood timber; and

 

     (2)  Establishing penalties for the destruction or harvesting of native sandalwood trees.

 

     Hui Ho‘omalu i ka Aina and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Defining "native Hawaiian sandalwood species";

 

     (2)  Requiring that the Department of Land and Natural Resources identify native Hawaiian sandalwood species;

 

     (3)  Requiring that the Department of Land and Natural Resources establish rules regarding the issuance of permits for harvesting or destroying a native Hawaiian sandalwood tree;

 

     (4)  Authorizing a processing fee for permits issued;

 

     (5)  Providing that processing fees and penalties collected be deposited into the forest stewardship fund established under section 195F-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

     (6)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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. 1793, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1793, 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,

 

 

		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair