STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1240-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3025

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3025 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the placement of the planning, land use, and development functions within the state government structure by:

(1) Specifying that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) shall have sole jurisdiction over the Land Use Commission, state planning, and the Hawaii State Planning Act;

(2) Prohibiting the transfer of the planning, land use, and development functions to any other department via executive order due to their inherently interdependent functions; and

(3) Requiring the Director of the Office of Planning (OP) to report to the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and not be required to report directly to any other department.

DBEDT, OP, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference opposed this measure. The American Planning Association, Hawaii Chapter, offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion on this measure; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct drafting errors.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3025, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3025, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair