THE SENATE

KA AHA KENEKOA

 

THE THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2025

 

COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

Senator Karl Rhoads, Chair

Senator Mike Gabbard, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Sharon Y. Moriwaki, Vice Chair

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2025

 

DATE:

Friday, February 28, 2025

TIME:

10:15 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 211 & Videoconference

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

WAM

 

 

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The Legislature is accepting written, videoconference, and in-person testimony at public hearings.

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A G E N D A

 

The Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means originally heard this measure on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 and are considering amendments contained in a Proposed Senate Draft 2. The committees will meet to consider public testimony on the Proposed Senate Draft 2, a copy of which is available via the link on this notice.

 

SB 534, SD1

      Proposed SD2

      (SSCR616)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO THE HAWAII COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.

Part I: Clarifies the process by which the Hawaii Community Development Authority may approve residential development on certain parcels of Kakaako Makai.  Raises the building height limit and the maximum floor area ratio on certain parcels in the area.  Requires a certain percentage of the residential units developed on certain parcels to be allocated to households at or below a certain income level in perpetuity, with priority given to certain essential workforce in the area.  Limits the sale of residential units developed in certain residential developments to prospective owner-occupants.  Requires the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to determine a Kakaako Makai association fee to be collected from residents, tenants, and lessees of certain parcels to be deposited into a special account in the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Special Fund to fund various services and projects in the Kakaako Makai area.  Part II:  Authorizes the HCDA to engage in tax increment financing with respect to the Kakaako Community Development District.  Establishes a Kakaako Community Development District Working Group to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the transfer of the Kakaako Community Development District and its functions from the HCDA to the City and County of Honolulu.  Requires a report to the Legislature.  Appropriates funds.  (Proposed SD2)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

WTL/HWN/HOU, JDC/WAM

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

All testimony received by the Hawai‘i Senate is posted on the Hawai‘i Legislature's website, which is accessible to the public. Please do not include private information that you do not want disclosed to the public.

 

Please go to the Legislature's website, https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov, to submit written testimony at least 24 hours prior to the hearing. Create a free account on the website, or sign in to an existing account, then click on the "Participate" drop down menu and select the "Submit Testimony" option to get started. While submitting your written testimony, you will be prompted to indicate if you would also like to testify at the hearing in-person or remotely via videoconference.

 

Please note the following:

 

·         The number of oral testifiers and/or time allotted to each testifier may be limited by the Chair when necessary to adhere to the committee hearing schedule. We may not be able to accommodate everyone who requests to testify orally.

·         Testifiers for this hearing will be limited to 1 minute each.

 

If you wish to testify via videoconference during the hearing, please review the detailed step-by-step instructions for testimony procedures before you submit your written testimony. Here's a direct link to the instructions: https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/docs/testimonyinstructions.pdf

 

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For amended notices: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 587-7211.