STAND. COM. REP. NO.  527

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 926

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 926 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SHORELINE SETBACK,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect Hawaii's precious beaches by prohibiting the inclusion of accreted lands in determining the shoreline setback line in counties with a population greater than 500,000.

 

     Hawaii's Thousand Friends supported this bill.  The state Office of Planning, Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter, and a concerned individual supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments.

 

     After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Amending the definition of "accreted lands" from "lands formed by the gradual accumulation of land on a beach or shore along the ocean by the action of natural forces" to "lands judicially decreed or registered under the State's accretion laws";


 

 

     (2)  Clarifying that this bill is to be applied prospectively and is applicable only to undeveloped lands that have been judicially decreed or registered under the State's accretion laws; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 926, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 926, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

 

 

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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair