STAND. COM. REP. NO.  272

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1230

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1230 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUILDING PERMITS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the construction of agricultural and aquacultural infrastructure by prohibiting counties from requiring a building permit for the construction of low risk, nonresidential temporary or permanent structures used for agricultural or aquacultural operations, under certain conditions.

     Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Shrimp Improvement Systems Hawaii LLC, East Oahu County Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Aquaculture & Aquaponics Association supported this bill.  The Department of Agriculture opposed this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifically including aquaponics or any growing of plants or animals with aquaculture effluents under the definition of "aquacultural";

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1230, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1230, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair

____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair