STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1236-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 3062

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

 

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. 3062, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPACT FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Clarify county authority to assess impact fees for schools and state highway improvements; and

(2) Establish the Highway Development Special Fund for the Department of Transportation (DOT) to administer county impact fees assessed for state highway projects.

The Department of Education, DOT, and City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii Community Development Authority and several concerned individuals supported the intent of this measure. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; 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. 3062, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3062, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair