STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2318

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3054

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 3054 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to replace the Director of Law Enforcement with the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation as a member of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development (Council).

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

Your Committee finds that when Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, reorganized the Department of Public Safety, section 226-64(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, was amended to replace the Director of Public Safety with the Director of Law Enforcement as a member of the Council. As the Council advises on state facilities in transit-oriented development areas, the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who has administrative responsibilities for correctional and rehabilitation facilities statewide, is the more appropriate director to serve on the Council. This measure will ensure that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation remains involved in transit-oriented development planning and implementation statewide.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3054, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3054, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair