STAND. COM. REP. NO.  187

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 1249

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1249 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the restoration and management of certain areas in East Hawaii by:

     (1)  Establishing the Banyan Drive Community Development District;

     (2)  Establishing the Banyan Drive Community Development Board to serve a purpose similar to that of the Hawaii Community Development Authority for the Banyan Drive Community Development District; and

     (3)  Amending the composition, qualifications, and members' voting rights of the Hawaii Community Development Authority to account for the establishment of the Banyan Drive Community Development District and Board.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from a member of the Hawaii County Council.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Executive Director of the Hawaii Community Development Authority, and one individual.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting language relating to the establishment of the Banyan Drive Community Development District and its governing authority;

     (2)  Establishing the Hawaii Community Development Board and the Hawaii Community Development District in Chapter 206, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (3)  Authorizing the Hawaii Community Development Board to advise the Department of Land and Natural Resources in the preservation and management of the Hawaii Community Development District;

     (4)  Deleting all provisions that amended the composition, qualifications, and members' voting rights of the Hawaii Community Development Authority; and

     (5)  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 & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1249, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1249, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair