STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1029

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1074

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1074, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE PLANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of Planning to conduct a comprehensive review of the Hawaii State Plan to ensure that it is updated, as necessary, to address current State needs and economic, social, technological, and other changes that have transpired since the Plan was last reviewed in 1985.  This measure also appropriates funds for the comprehensive review and requires the Office of Planning to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2017.  

The Office of Planning and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism supported this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2015.

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests an appropriation amount of $250,000 be inserted.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1074, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1074, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair