THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2020

 

COMMITTEE ON WATER AND LAND

Senator Kaiali‘i Kahele, Chair

Senator Gilbert S.C. Keith-Agaran, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY, INTERGOVERNMENTAL, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Chair

Senator Glenn Wakai, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

TIME:

1:30 P.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2448

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO BEES.

Requires any public facility or entity that receives state or county funding and discovers a beehive or swarm on its property to contract with a beekeeper for removal and destroy the beehive only as a last resort.

 

WTL/PSM, WAM

SB 2779

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION COMMISSION.

Establishes an ecosystem restoration commission to identify lands for environmental remediation and return ownership and control of those lands to the State, a county, or other entity.

 

WTL/PSM, WAM

SB 2911

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO BOATING REPORTS.

Requires the fire chief and the ocean safety director of each county, in addition to the Director of Public Safety and the police chief of each county, to transmit to the Department of Land and Natural Resources a copy of every report relating to boating accidents or the theft, loss, or recovery of vessels.  Requires all reports submitted pursuant to section 200-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to be unredacted.

 

WTL/PSM, WAM

SB 2759

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TRAILS.

Requires government entities that engage in search and rescue operations to seek reimbursement when the rescued person required search and rescue efforts because that person acted in disregard of that person's safety, including intentionally disregarding a warning or notice.  Increases the penalty for unlawfully entering or remaining on a trail that has been closed to the public.

 

WTL/PSM, JDC

 

 

 

SB 2828

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WATER.

Specifies that fire safety use is a beneficial use of water.  Requires the department of land and natural resources to work with the county governments, Hawaii emergency management agency, and owners to use reservoir water for fire safety.

 

WTL/PSM, JDC

SB 2667

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS.

Provides that where public access is required as a condition of a subdivision, either the county must accept dedication of and maintain the access or identify an entity to own and maintain the access.  Authorizes the county to require the subdivider to establish a stewardship fund for maintenance purposes.

 

PSM/WTL, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6760.

 

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Senator Clarence K. Nishihara

Chair

 

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Senator Kaiali'i Kahele

Chair