HI SB786

Appropriates funds for fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 for administrative and operational expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee (amount not specified in bill text).

Appropriates additional funds for fiscal years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 for community outreach efforts by the Aha Moku Advisory Committee (amount not specified in bill text).

Directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expend appropriated funds for purposes of the Act.

Addresses the Aha Moku Advisory Committee's lack of funding despite its establishment in 2012 by Act 288, which formally recognized the traditional Hawaiian moku resource management system.

Committee advises the Board of Land and Natural Resources on land and natural resource issues using traditional Hawaiian geographic and resource management practices across forty-three moku and five hundred eighty-nine ahupuaa.