STAND. COM. REP. NO. 785

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 910

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 Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 910 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BANYAN DRIVE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Office of Planning to conduct a study of the infrastructure needs and barriers to development of the Banyan Drive area on the Waiakea Peninsula on the island of Hawaii; and

(2) Appropriate funds to the Office of Planning for the study.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 supported this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Planning, and Mayor of the County of Hawai‘i provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amount appropriated to the Office of Planning to an unspecified amount; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

Should your Committee on Finance consider this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $250,000 in each year of the 2019-2021 fiscal biennium to the Office of Planning.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 910, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 910, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair