STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1202

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1457

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1457, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Office of Planning to assist the County of Maui in the development and implementation of the Wailuku-Kahului transit corridor master plan.

The Mayor of the County of Maui, a Councilmember of the Maui County Council, Department of Transportation of the County of Maui, Department of Planning of the County of Maui, Maui Chamber of Commerce, and O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i testified in support of this measure. The Office of Planning provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the $500,000 appropriated by this measure to an unspecified amount; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1457, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1457, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair