STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1372

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1079
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERMIT PROCESSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make improvements to the
consolidated application process, by:

     (1)  Changing the name of that process to the "facilitated
          application process";

     (2)  Expanding and more specifically delineating the
          membership of the Permit Process Task Force (Task
          Force);

     (3)  Limiting the Task Force's purpose of facilitating the
          state permit approval process to county building permit
          applications requiring state agency approval; and

     (4)  Establishing a sunset date of June 30, 2002, for the
          Task Force.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure
from the Office of Planning of the Department of Business,
Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT), which also recommended
technical amendments to clarify and correct the bill.  The Sierra
Club, Hawai'i Chapter, testified in opposition to the bill.

 
 
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     Your Committee has amended the bill to incorporate a
technical, nonsubstantive amendment proposed by DBEDT, to conform
section 2 of the bill to reflect the complete text of section
201-62, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in
the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1079, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Consumer
                                   Protection and Commerce,



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair