STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2381

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3224

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 3224 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PULEHUNUI COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Establish the Pulehunui community development district;

(2) Establish community development district authority boards for each community development district; and

(3) Amend the membership and reassign certain duties of the Hawaii Community Development Authority to the community development district authority boards.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Community Development Authority. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of the Attorney General, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committees find that the public lands in Pulehunui, Maui are relatively underdeveloped and have strong potential for increased growth and development that can provide for the community's needs. However, your Committees recognize that under Article III, section 14, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the title of this measure, relating to the Pulehunui Community Development District, is too narrow to effectuate its provisions regarding the Hawaii Community Development Authority and other community development districts.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Adopting the language suggested in the testimony from the Hawaii Community Development Authority, which limits the content of the measure to addressing issues that fit within the measure's title establishes the:

(A) Pulehunui community development district; and

(B) Pulehunui community development district board; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3224, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3224, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism and Water and Land,

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair