STAND. COM. REP. NO. 631

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 842

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 842 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update the Hawaii State Planning Act by removing reference to achieving the viability of Hawaii's sugar and pineapple industries from the Hawaii State Planning Act's agricultural objectives.

The Office of Planning testified in support of this measure. The Department of Agriculture provided comments.

After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents except for the amendment to section 226-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which deletes achieving the viability of the State's sugar and pineapple industries from the Hawaii State Planning Act, and inserting new provisions that:

(1) Establish the Hawaii State Planning Act Review Commission (Commission) to:

(A) Conduct a continuing systematic review of the Hawaii State Planning Act using information and data provided by the Office of Planning; and

(B) Submit to the Legislature 30 days prior to the convening of the second Regular Session after the Commission members have been appointed, an evaluation of the Hawaii State Planning Act and recommendations for policy additions, amendments, or deletions to the Hawaii State Planning Act;

(2) Appropriate unspecified amounts for each year of Fiscal Biennium 2019-2021 to carry out the purposes of this measure;

(3) Making the appropriations take effect on July 1, 2019; and

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

Should the Committee on Finance consider this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $150,000 for each year of Fiscal Biennium 2019-2021 to carry out the purposes of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 842, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 842, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

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TY J.K. CULLEN, Chair