STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1038

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 830

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 830, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEWS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources, through the State Historic Preservation Division and subject to approval from the appropriate island burial council, to contract its review of proposed state projects, projects on privately owned historic property, and projects involving entitlements for use that may affect historic properties to third-party consultants if the Department will not be able to complete its review within sixty days.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Association of REALTORS; NAIOP Hawaii; Grassroot Institute of Hawaii; and two individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; and Maui Chamber of Commerce.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules to implement the retention of third-party consultants, as proposed by this measure, within one year of the effective date of this measure;

(2) Including a sunset date of June 30, 2031, which is approximately five years after the deadline to adopt those rules; and

(3) 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 830, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 830, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair