STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1378

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1103

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1103, H.D. 1, 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 increase the instances in which a county may assess and collect impact fees owed to it.

 

More specifically, the measure provides counties with the option to assess and collect impact fees assessed and owed to it before or upon the issuance of a water meter.

 

Your Committee finds that under existing law, counties are only explicitly authorized to assess and collect impact fees upon or before the issuance of a building or grading permit.  This measure expands that authority to include the option to assess and collect impact fees before or upon the issuance of a water meter.

 

     Your Committee also finds that certain counties have expressed concerns that the current timing of collection of impact fees for projects does not allow sufficient flexibility.  Your Committee believes that, by allowing impact fees to be assessed and collected prior to or upon issuance of a water meter, this measure affords the counties greater flexibility in planning and imposing fees and aligns state law with the current rules and procedures of the county water boards.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1103, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair