HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2005

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

Rep. Dwight Y. Takamine, Chair

Rep. Bertha C. Kawakami, Vice Chair

Rep. Mele Carroll

Rep. Clift Tsuji

Rep. Pono Chong

Rep. Glenn Wakai

Rep. Cindy Evans

Rep. Ryan I. Yamane

Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu

Rep. Kyle T. Yamashita

Rep. Marilyn B. Lee

Rep. Galen Fox

Rep. Michael Y. Magaoay

Rep. Colleen Rose Meyer

Rep. Bob Nakasone

Rep. Mark S. Moses

Rep. Scott Y. Nishimoto

Rep. Kymberly N. Pine

Rep. Kameo Tanaka

NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:

WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2005

TIME:

11:00 A.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 308

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A # 2

HB 1523

HD2

(HSCR658)

RELATING TO LAND USE.

Repeals parts of chapter 516, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to mandatory residential leasehold condemnation.

WLO/HSG, JUD, FIN

HB 1536

HD1

(HSCR372)

RELATING TO THE ALA WAI CANAL.

Appropriates state matching funds for the Ala Wai trash trap cleanup project.

WLO, FIN

HB 1641

(HSCR295)

RELATING TO NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS.

Establishes the Non-Agricultural Park Land Special Fund to pay for costs incurred in managing, administering, and overseeing non-agricultural park lands that are transferred, or in the process of being transferred, to the department of agriculture.

AGR/WLO, EDB, FIN

HB 1640

HD2

(HSCR531)

RELATING TO IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL LANDS.

Establishes important agricultural lands (IAL) identification process. Requires an incentives study. Prohibits IAL designation without landowner petition until July 1, 2011. Provides an agricultural infrastructure improvement tax credit and IAL leasehold subdivisions. Makes identification of IAL contingent on enactment of legislative incentives. Makes appropriations.

WLO/AGR, EDB, FIN

     

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

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Rep. Dwight Takamine

Chair