STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2999

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2129

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2129, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand the definition of "historic property" for purposes of the Historic Preservation Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; Building Industry Association of Hawaii; Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation; and

Stanford Carr Development, LLC.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Mayor of the County of Maui; NAIOP Hawaii, and Society for Hawaiian Archaeology.

Your Committee finds that the current definition of "historic property" relies on the age of the property as the sole criteria for designation as a historic property. Your Committee further finds that this approach is unnecessarily broad and presumes that the age of the property equates to historic importance. This measure will develop a more nuanced approach by establishing criteria in addition to age for properties over fifty years old and less than one hundred years old.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of April 14, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2129, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2129, S.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair