STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1615

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1592

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1592, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE PLANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the long-term planning of Hawaii's future by:

(1) Establishing a temporary Hawaii 2050 Task Force (Task Force) to review the Hawaii State Plan and other fundamental components of community planning, and to develop and report recommendations for the creation of the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan as a guide for the future long-term development of the state;

(2) Requiring the Auditor, after receipt of the Task Force's report, to prepare the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan to define and implement state goals, objectives, policies, and priority guidelines, incorporating some or all of the recommendations of the Task Force; and

(3) Requiring the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) to certify projects that meet the requirements of an affordable housing project.

Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc., Windward Ahupua'a Alliance, Hawaii Island Economic Development Board, Inc., Sustain Hawaii, and several concerned individuals supported this bill. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Office of Planning, and HCDCH supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Community Services of the City and County of Honolulu offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the provision requiring HCDCH to certify projects that meet the requirements of an affordable housing project; and

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

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. 1592, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1592, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair