STAND. COM. REP. NO. 426-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2361

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water & Land and Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2361 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Community Development Authority to render services to and assist state and county agencies upon request.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Hawaiʻi Community Development Authority. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from Na Iwi Kupuna.

Your Committees find that Section 206E-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, allows state or county agencies to render services to the Hawaii Community Development Authority upon its request and that this measure allows the Hawaii Community Development Authority to reciprocate.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

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

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2361, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2361, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair

____________________________ LINDA ICHIYAMA, Chair