Bill Text: HI SB1310 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Threatened and Endangered Species

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1310 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1310-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 409

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1310

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1310 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SECTION 13 OF ACT 380, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 1997,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove the sunset date on the use of safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses as recovery options for conserving and protecting the State's threatened and endangered species.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from William J. Aila, Jr., Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committees find that Hawaii needs flexibility within its state law to work with federal counterparts, private landowners, and other partners to deal with the complexities of the endangered species situation in Hawaii and find workable solutions to protect our endangered and threatened species while allowing for acceptable resource use activities.  Your Committees further find that habitat conservation plans and safe harbor agreements have proven and continue to prove to be valuable in the process of recovering the State's endangered species and that the provisions regarding habitat conservation plans and safe harbor agreements originally included in section 13 of Act 380, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997, should be made permanent.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1310 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Water, Land, and Housing,

 

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair