STAND. COM. REP. NO. 107

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1028

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1028 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NOTICE BY THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require notices of public hearings for:

     (1)  An amendment to certain community development rules of the Hawaii Community Development Authority to be published statewide; and

     (2)  The acceptance of a developer's proposal to develop lands under the Authority's control to be published county-wide in the affected county.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Executive Director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

     Your Committee finds that there is ambiguity in existing statute regarding the type of publication in which the Hawaii Community Development Authority must publish public notice of its decision-making hearings.  This measure allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to publish notice of its decision-making hearings in an efficient manner that ensures sufficient notice to the proper audiences.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1028 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair