STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1138-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2077
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2077, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to improve efforts to govern long-term development in the State by requiring state agencies to update their functional plans every ten years, beginning June 30, 2006.
This bill also requires:
(1) Legislative approval of any new functional plan or update; and
(2) Consideration and incorporation, as practicable, of findings and recommendations by state agencies from their planning documents produced within five years of an update.
The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Office of Planning opposed this bill. The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii offered comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion on this measure; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2077, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2077, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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