THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

 

COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, AND HOUSING

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Malama Solomon, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 16, 2012

TIME:

1:15 P.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 225

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

This agenda has been amended to reflect the correct descriptions for measures with a Proposed SD1.

 

SB 2742

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

Amends section 206E-191, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to permit the Hawaii Community Development Authority's Kalaeloa Community Development District ex-officio members to designate a representative with voting powers in the event they are unable to attend an authority meeting.

 

WLH

SB 2366

      Proposed SD1

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COMMUNITY PLANNING.

Changes the Hawaii Community development authority to the Hawaii community planning authority.  Creates a process for developers to apply for residential and commercial planning projects.  Allocates general excise tax revenues collected within a planning district to be used by the authority to pay principal and interest on bonds associated with projects located in a planning district.  Allows the authority to waive impact fees.  Authorizes the authority to create business improvement districts and community facilities districts and assess a special assessment to fund the improvements within those districts.  Authorizes the authority to act as a density rights bank and transfer a property's density rights to a receiving entity or from a sending authority to increase development in that area authorized by the authority.  (PROPOSED SD1)

 

WLH, WAM

SB 2927

      Proposed SD1

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO COMMUNITY PLANNING.

Allows the counties to create county transit-oriented development programs.  Establishes planning districts and creates a process for developers to apply for residential and commercial exceptional planning projects.  (PROPOSED SD1)

 

WLH, WAM

SB 3067

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING.

Transfers the office of planning from the department of business, economic development, and tourism to the office of the governor.  Creates operating teams in the office of planning for data collection, strategic planning, and project management.  Requires the director of the office of planning to conduct an annual review of the office of planning.

 

WLH, WAM

SB 3056

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE KAHO'OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION.

Provides that the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission shall be subject to the oversight of the department of land and natural resources.

 

WLH, WAM

SB 2933

      Proposed SD1

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO OCEAN SAFETY.

Requires the department of land and natural resources to adopt rules that promote greater safety of ocean users in the State's nearshore waters.  Appropriates funds for swim zone buoys at Kamaole beach.  Requires a report to the legislature.  (PROPOSED SD1)

 

WLH, WAM

SB 2207

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS.

Provides for fair compensation when leased public land for agricultural or pastoral uses is withdrawn, condemned, or taken for public purposes.

 

WLH/JDL, WAM

[Measure added on 02-15-2012]

SB 2524

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HAIKU VALLEY.

Establishes the Haiku Valley cultural preserve commission to provide policy and management oversight of the Haiku Valley cultural preserve.  Initiates process of conveying Haiku valley in fee simple to the department of land and natural resouces.

 

WLH/JDL, WAM

[Measure added on 02-15-2012]

SB 2851

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO VESSELS.

Clarifies responsibility for disposing of vessels and amends the description of an abandoned vessel.

 

WLH/JDL, WAM

[Measure added on 02-15-2012]

SB 2852

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCE VIOLATIONS.

Provides for transformative administrative penalty alternatives and an enhanced collection mechanism for outstanding fines and penalties resulting from aquatic resource violations.

 

WLH/JDL, WAM

[Measure added on 02-15-2012]

SB 2853

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ACCRETED LANDS.

Clarifies that land accreted after May 20, 2003, shall be public land except as otherwise provided by law.

 

WLH/JDL, WAM

[Measure added on 02-15-2012]

SB 2856

      Status & Testimony

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VII, SECTION 12, OF THE HAWAII STATE CONSTITUTION TO ASSIST DAM AND RESERVOIR OWNERS.

Proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize the State to issue special purpose revenue bonds and use the proceeds from the bonds to assist dam and reservoir owners.

 

WLH/JDL, WAM

[Measure added on 02-15-2012]

SB 3028

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES.

Establishes penalties for the destruction or harvesting of native sandalwood trees.  Requires replanting for trees harvested.  Bans the export of raw or unprocessed sandalwood timber.  Establishes DLNR policies regarding sandalwood.

 

WLH/JDL, WAM

[Measure added on 02-15-2012]

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6090.