STAND. COM. REP. NO. 669-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2365

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 Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2365 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT PLANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to replace the Director of Law Enforcement with the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation on the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development was established by Act 130, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, to coordinate and facilitate state agency transit-oriented development planning and facilitate consultation and collaboration between the State and the counties on transit-oriented development initiatives.

Your Committee further finds that Act 278, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022 (Act 278), reorganized the Department of Public Safety into the Department of Law Enforcement and Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Act 278 also replaced the Director of Public Safety with the Director of Law Enforcement as a member of the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development. However, as the council advises on state facilities in transit-oriented development areas, the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation, who has administrative responsibilities for correctional and rehabilitation facilities statewide, would be the more appropriate director to serve on the council. This measure replaces, as a member on the Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development, the Director of Law Enforcement with the Director of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the 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 record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2365, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2365, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair