STAND. COM. REP. NO. 662

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1170

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

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. 1170, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENFORCEMENT OF VIOLATIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide alternative civil enforcement options that may be utilized by the Board of Land and Natural Resources in the processing of natural and cultural resource violations.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Land and Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy, and two individuals.

 

     Current law authorizes the Board of Land and Natural Resources to levy administrative fines and order encroachment removal and damage restoration for violations of natural and cultural resource laws.  Your Committee finds that this measure will provide the Board of Land and Natural Resources greater flexibility in enforcing natural and cultural resource violations administratively instead of using the judicial system, which is more costly to all parties involved.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the director of finance for each county to deny any application for vehicle registration if notified by the Board of Land and Natural Resources that the applicant has failed to discharge a condition imposed by the Board of Land and Natural Resources;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 1170, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1170, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair