STAND. COM. REP. NO.  572-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 3374

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 3374 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to establish expedited procedures for a county to reclassify lands to bring the lands into conformance with county land uses in county plans.

 

     The Hawaii County Planning Department and Maui County Council Chair testified in support of this bill.  The Office of Planning supported the intent of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to June 1, 2025, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 


     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3374, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3374, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture,

 

 

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair

 

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KEN ITO, Chair