STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1154

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1270

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1270, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE PLANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve government decision-making through improved access to, and ability to share agency geospatial information, by:

(1)  Updating the Office of Planning's (OP's) duties with regard to managing and coordinating a statewide geospatial information and data integration program;

(2)  Requiring agencies to provide OP with their respective geospatial data; and

(3)  Establishing a statewide Geospatial Information and Data Integration Special Fund.

     The Department of Health, OP, Department of Agriculture, Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, Pacific Disaster Center and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Stipulating that all interest on special fund balances         shall accrue to the special fund;

     (2)  Removing specific appropriation amounts; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,      consistency, 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 H.B. No. 1270, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1270, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair