STAND. COM. REP. NO. 731

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1162

       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 S.B. No. 1162 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure public access to beaches by making permanent the provisions of Act 160, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, relating to the removal of induced shoreline vegetation.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and twelve individuals.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Association of Realtors.

 

     Your Committee finds that Act 160, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, was enacted because there are many shoreline areas throughout the State where the overgrowth of vegetation inhibits lateral access and transit along the beach.  Your Committee further finds that, by making permanent the provisions of Act 160, this measure will allow the Department of Land and Natural Resources to continue its efforts in compelling landowners to cut back vegetation that inhibits lateral shoreline access.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1162, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1162, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair