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. 2901, H.D. 1, entitled:

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.

Your Committees finds that this measure is necessary to authorize the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai to assess impact fees as a condition of obtaining county building permits, in order to pay for state highway improvements. County-specific transportation plans will cost several billion dollars more than the State can actually afford. Impact fees provide counties with an optional means of financing infrastructure for state projects which otherwise might be indefinitely postponed.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2006.

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. 2901, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2901, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.