STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 694
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2025
RE: H.B. No. 1007
H.D. 2
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Madame:
Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1007, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority; Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization; and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.
Your Committee finds that, as transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement districts have not been constituted since its establishment pursuant to Act 184, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, repealing the transit-oriented infrastructure improvement districts and boards and reconstituting them as a program under the Hawaii Community Development Authority will allow for a more streamlined transit-oriented development infrastructure improvements.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Authorizing, rather than requiring, program areas to include all parcels of land of which any portion is located within certain transit-oriented development zones or transit stations;
(2) Clarifying that the Hawaii Community Development Authority may establish and administer transit-oriented development infrastructure improvement program areas;
(3) Deleting language that would have allowed the Hawaii Community Development Authority to acquire property already devoted to a public use; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1007, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1007, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair |