CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. -0 117-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2090

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

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. 2090, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,"

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 Hawaii Community Development Authority to:

(1) Provide more community and public notice for its public hearings;

(2) Render any decision for an amendment to the authority's community development rules, or for the acceptance of a developer's proposal to develop lands under the authority's control, at a separate hearing from the hearing at which the proposal was presented;

(3) Allow the public an opportunity to testify at the decision-making hearings; and

(4) Require the authority to notify the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House:

(a) Of any public hearing upon posting of the hearing notice; and

(b) With a report detailing the public's reaction at the public hearing, within one week after the hearing.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by making it effective upon its 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. 2090, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2090, S.D. 2, 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

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Co-Chair

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RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair

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MICHAEL Y. MAGAOAY, Co-Chair

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair