STAND. COM. REP. NO. 898-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1672

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1672, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to broaden the counties' authority to create special improvement districts by expanding the objective of the special improvement districts to include environmental research, restoration, and maintenance; natural resource management; natural hazard mitigation; and climate change and sea level rise adaptation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program and Climate Resiliency Initiative, Waikīkī Beach Special Improvement District Association, and two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawai‘i Emergency Management Agency.

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. 1672, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair