STAND. COM. REP. NO. 454-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2427
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 2427 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
     SYSTEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a special fund to
help support the operation and maintenance of the Statewide
Planning and Geographic Information System and to enable the
Office of Planning to charge fees for spatial analysis services.

     The Department of Agriculture and the Department of
Business, Economic Development & Tourism testified in support of
this bill.

     No testimony in opposition to this bill was received.

     Your Committee finds that while there are a number of
agencies and organizations that use geographic information system
technology on an everyday need, and therefore do not have staff
trained to provide such services.  For jobs that require a short
turn around time, agencies and other organizations often ask the
Office of Planning to assist them in carrying out a quick
analysis.  While many of these entities are willing to pay for
such services, the Office of Planning does not have the authority
to collect fees.  This bill would allow the Office of Planning to
be compensated for staff time and other costs associated with

 
 
 
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carrying out services for other government agencies as well as
private interests.

     Your Committee has revised this bill by changing the
appropriation to $1 for the purpose of continued discussion.

     Your Committee recommends to the Finance to review the
funding needed to implement the geographic information systems.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 2427, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2427, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water and Land
                                   Use,



                                   ______________________________
                                   ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair