Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2633 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow any county of Hawaii to assess impact fees to help pay for state highway improvements needed to service new developments.

The Department of Transportation, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii supported this bill.

Your Committees note that under existing law, only the City and County of Honolulu may assess impact fees for development. However, development impacts every county of the state. This measure allows other counties the same authority to assess impact fees to pay for state highway improvements needed to service the new developments.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2633 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.