Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1029 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal the automatic permit approval law.

The Office of the Governor, Life of the Land, and the Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter testified in support of this bill. The General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., and the Land Use Research Foundation testified in opposition.

Your Committee finds it prudent to rescind the automatic approval law to restore public confidence in the deliberative process engaged in by those entrusted to make decisions with long-ranging impact on Hawaii's precious environment.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1029 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.