STAND. COM. REP. NO. 651

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 856

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Taxation, to which was referred S.B. No. 856 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the construction or development of hotels or transient accommodations on the real property controlled by the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority.

 

     The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) submitted comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has heard that written guidelines established by NELHA in 1998 specifically prohibit residential and commercial hotel uses of any type.  However, your Committee believes that the emphasis on self sufficiency for NELHA may have raised the concern that development of transient accommodations would be one means of achieving this self sufficiency.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2030, for the purposes of further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Taxation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 856, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 856, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Taxation,

 

 

 

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair