CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 37-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3025

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 3025, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of Planning to report to the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and to clarify that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism has sole jurisdiction over the Land Use Commission, state planning, and the Hawaii State Planning Act.

Your Committee on Conference believes that clarifying the roles of the Office of Planning and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism is necessary to ensure that the legislatively determined functions of those entities are not altered without prior action by the Legislature. It is the intent of your Committee on Conference that this measure shall not affect the Office of Planning's historical or coastal zone management programs, and that the Office of Planning shall continue to communicate freely with and assist all state departments in all planning-related issues.

Your Committee on Conference amended the measure by correcting the defective effective date of July 1, 2010 and making the measure effective upon approval.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3025, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3025, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ EZRA KANOHO, Co-Chair		____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Co-Chair
____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Co-Chair		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair
		____________________________ RUSSELL KOKUBUN, Co-Chair