STAND. COM. REP. NO. 281

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1314

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 1314 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STRUCTURE OF STATE GOVERNMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to create the State Resources Protection and Development Agency to house functions currently under the Aloha Tower Development Corporation, the State Planning Office, and the Hawaii Community Development Corporation.

     One state agency submitted comments.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by two state agencies and one organization.  Copies of written testimony are available for review on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that with the economic downturn affecting the state budget, a comprehensive reexamination of the structure of the state government is necessary to ensure that all available avenues to accomplish more with less have been explored.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending the effective date to July 1, 2050 for the purpose of encouraging further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purpose of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1314, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1314, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development and Technology,

____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair