STAND. COM. REP. NO.  434

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1529

      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 Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 1529 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a task force to review and update the Hawaii State Planning Act and the planning, programming, and budgeting system of the State.

     The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and the Department of Budget and Finance testified in support of the intent of the measure.

     Your Committee notes that the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii proposed that the measure be amended to include additional task force members to address important objectives and policies in the Hawaii State Planning Act.  Your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance, should it choose to hear this measure, give careful consideration to this proposal.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1529, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1529, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair