HI HB785

Temporarily redirects Land Conservation Fund revenues from the conveyance tax toward invasive species control and mitigation, reforestation, and sediment run-off mitigation instead of land acquisition.

Appropriates funds from the Land Conservation Fund for the specified conservation and environmental purposes.

Committee finds the bill will create job opportunities and generate economic activity through employment rather than land acquisition from higher-income entities.

Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Trust for Public Land, and Hawaiian Islands Land Trust opposed the measure.

Recommended to pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.