STAND. COM. REP. NO. 180-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1781

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1781 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Panaewa Community Development District to allow for planning, development, and maintenance of public lands in Panaewa, Hawaii.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority and Department of Research & Development, County of Hawaii. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that certain public lands in Panaewa are underutilized. Redeveloping, renovating, or improving these public lands to provide suitable recreational, residential, educational, industrial, governmental, and commercial areas where the public can live, congregate, recreate, attend schools, and shop as part of a thoughtfully integrated experience is in the best interest of the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that funds collected by the Hawaii Community Development Authority for the Panaewa Community Development District are to be deposited into the newly established special fund, notwithstanding any law to the contrary;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 1781, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1781, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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LINDA ICHIYAMA, Chair