Bill Text: HI SR12 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Keiki Caucus; Trees; Planting

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-21 - (S) Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). [SR12 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SR12-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3213

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 12

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 12 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATEWIDE PROGRAM TO PLANT ONE MILLION TREES BY OCTOBER 2010, AS PART OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH MONTH CELEBRATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Children and Youth Month Planning Committee and the Nature Conservancy, in partnership with other community organizations, to establish and coordinate a statewide program to plant one million trees by October 2010, as part of the Children and Youth Month celebration.

 

     No testimony was received for this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by incorporating language from S.R. No. 11, which requests the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a public service program for volunteers to pick up litter on Hawaii's beaches.  Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Amends the title to read:  REQUESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATEWIDE SERVICE PROJECT TO PLANT ONE MILLION TREES AND CLEAN BEACHES ACROSS THE STATE BY OCTOBER 2010, AS PART OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH MONTH CELEBRATION;

 

     (2)  Adds Whereas language regarding the importance of efforts to clean up Hawaii's beaches;

 

     (3)  Requests the Hawaii State Legislature's Keiki Caucus, Children and Youth Month Planning Committee, and Kanu Hawaii, in partnership with other community organizations, to establish and coordinate a statewide service project to plant one million trees and clean beaches across the State by October 2010, as part of the Children and Youth Month celebration, and when feasible, to log their efforts on the Kanu Hawaii website:  kanuhawaii.org/milliontreesofaloha;

 

     (4)  Requests the Keiki Caucus, with the assistance of Kanu Hawaii, to establish Malama o ke Kahakai, a public service project for volunteers to care for Hawaii's beaches by picking up litter and debris, and encourage community groups, churches, businesses, and individuals to pick up litter and debris and beautify beaches across the islands, and log their efforts on the Kanu Hawaii website:  kanuhawaii.org/caringforourbeaches; and

 

     (5)  Adds various entities to the list of those to receive a copy of the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 12, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 12, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair