Bill Text: HI HB471 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Starlight Reserve; Extension of Advisory Committee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-18 - Act 109, 6/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1209). [HB471 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB471-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  779

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 471

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 471 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STARLIGHT RESERVE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address light pollution issues and preserve the quality of the night sky by enabling the Starlight Reserve Committee to continue its advisory duties in developing a statewide starlight reserve strategy. 

 

     Specifically, this measure extends the termination date of the Committee for two years until June 30, 2015.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Starlight Reserve Committee; and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to June 29, 2030, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 471, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 471, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair