STAND. COM. REP. NO.  306

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 1227

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1227 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IOLANI PALACE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to promote the restoration of the grounds of Iolani Palace by:

     (1)  Prohibiting parking on the Palace grounds;

     (2)  Directing the Department of Accounting and General Services to submit a proposal to the Legislature for removing blacktop, parking areas, and parking meters and, subsequently, to carry out those actions; and

     (3)  Directing the Department of Land and Natural Resources to submit a proposal to the Legislature for developing and maintaining a pedestrian area composed of grass and other historically appropriate materials to replace blacktop and parking areas and, subsequently, to carry out those actions.

One individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.  Iolani Palace submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the prohibition on parking and directives to the Department of Accounting and General Services and the Department of Land and Natural Resources;

     (2)  Inserting appropriations to be expended by the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete Phase I and to implement and complete Phase II of the Iolani Palace grounds master plan;

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2013; and

     (4)  Making nonsubstantive technical amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1227, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1227, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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CINDY EVANS, Chair