STAND. COM. REP. NO. 429

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1002

       S.D. 1

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. 1002 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KAPOLEI RECREATIONAL SPORTS COMPLEX,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make housekeeping amendments to delete references to the Kapolei Recreational Sports Complex from the Stadium Authority's statutory purview.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and Stadium Authority.

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, the Stadium Authority is responsible for the maintenance, operation, management, and promotion of the Kapolei Recreational Sports Complex.  However, in October 2006, the property on which the Kapolei Recreational Sports Complex was originally planned to be built was transferred to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.  Subsequently, the Department negotiated a lease with a development firm to construct a mixed use regional shopping center that is scheduled to break ground in 2013.  This measure deletes statutory requirements for the Stadium Authority to submit an annual special fund report and its responsibilities relating to the Kapolei Recreational Sports Complex, as these requirements are obsolete.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 1002, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1002, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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