STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1109

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1877

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 1877 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Clarify that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) has sole jurisdiction over certain land use and state planning functions;

(2) Require the Office of Planning to report exclusively to DBEDT and no other principal executive department; and

(3) Require the Director of the Office of Planning to be nominated by the Governor and appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Hawaii's Thousand Friends testified in support of this bill. DBEDT and the Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure. The Office of Planning did not support this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1877, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1877, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development & Business Concerns and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair