STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2065

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 1291

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1291, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SEA LEVEL RISE ADAPTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, in consultation with state agencies having operational responsibilities over facilities owned and managed by the State, to develop a standardized process for assessing the vulnerability of facilities owned and managed by the State to sea level rise in order to ensure that sea level rise planning and adaptation implementation is carried out in a consistent and comprehensive manner across state agencies' capital planning projects.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; Department Of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program and Climate Resilience Collaborative; Surfrider Foundation, Hawai‘i Region; Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i; Hawaii Reef and Ocean Coalition; Climate Protectors Hawaii; Wild Kids; Hawaii's Thousand Friends; and four individuals.

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 S.B. No. 1291, S.D. 1, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair