STAND. COM. REP. NO. 794

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1814

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1814, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPACT FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Education to assess and collect, by intergovernmental agreement with a county, fair share impact fees from developers for the development of state public school facilities.

This measure also makes an appropriation to be expended by the Department of Education for the preparation of public school needs assessment studies.

Your Committee finds that the imposition of fair share impact fees upon developers based on a needs assessment study that determines the impacts a development will have on public school facilities in the area of the development is fair and reasonable. By intergovernmental agreement, the counties may collect the fee at the time of the issuance of building permits.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Amending the effective date to facilitate further discussion on this matter;

(2) Making a technicial amendment on page 21, lines 7-8, to insert language to reflect the printed version of section 46-145, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1814, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1814, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair