Bill Text: HI HB514 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: DLNR; Program Funding

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-28 - Referred to WAL, FIN, referral sheet 2 [HB514 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HB514-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	514
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to funds controlled by the department of land and natural resources.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 171-19, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There is created in the department a special fund to be designated as the "special land and development fund".  Subject to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, and section 5(f) of the Admission Act of 1959, all proceeds of sale of public lands, including interest on deferred payments; all moneys collected under section 171-58 for mineral and water rights; all rents from leases, licenses, and permits derived from public lands; all moneys collected from lessees of public lands within industrial parks; all fees, fines, and other administrative charges collected under this chapter and chapter 183C; a portion of the highway fuel tax collected under chapter 243; all moneys collected by the department for the commercial use of public trails and trail accesses under the jurisdiction of the department; transient accommodations tax revenues collected pursuant to section 237D-6.5(b)(2); and private contributions for the management, maintenance, and development of trails and accesses shall be set apart in the fund and shall be used only as authorized by the legislature for the following purposes:

     (1)  To reimburse the general fund of the State for advances made that are required to be reimbursed from the proceeds derived from sales, leases, licenses, or permits of public lands;

     (2)  For the planning, development, management, operations, or maintenance of all lands and improvements under the control and management of the board, including but not limited to permanent or temporary staff positions who may be appointed without regard to chapter 76;

     (3)  To repurchase any land, including improvements, in the exercise by the board of any right of repurchase specifically reserved in any patent, deed, lease, or other documents or as provided by law;

     (4)  For the payment of all appraisal fees; provided that all fees reimbursed to the board shall be deposited in the fund;

     (5)  For the payment of publication notices as required under this chapter; provided that all or a portion of the expenditures may be charged to the purchaser or lessee of public lands or any interest therein under rules adopted by the board;

     (6)  For the management, maintenance, and development of trails and trail accesses under the jurisdiction of the department;

     (7)  For the payment to private land developers who have contracted with the board for development of public lands under section 171-60;

     (8)  For the payment of debt service on revenue bonds issued by the department, and the establishment of debt service and other reserves deemed necessary by the board;

     (9)  To reimburse the general fund for debt service on general obligation bonds issued to finance departmental projects, where the bonds are designated to be reimbursed from the special land and development fund;

    (10)  For the protection, planning, management, and regulation of water resources under chapter 174C; [and]

    (11)  To transfer not more than $        per fiscal year to the wildlife revolving fund, established under section 183D-10.5, for the costs of administering programs and activities for which wildlife revolving fund moneys may be expended; provided that the board may transfer funds pursuant to this paragraph without legislative approval; and

   [(11)] (12) For other purposes of this chapter."

     SECTION 2.  Section 183D-10.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The following proceeds shall be retained by or transmitted to the department of land and natural resources for deposit into the wildlife revolving fund:

     (1)  Moneys collected as fees for hunting licenses, attendance of hunter education training programs, and use of public target ranges;

     (2)  Moneys collected under the provision of any law relating to the importation, taking, catching, or killing of game, wildlife, and products thereof;

     (3)  Moneys, other than informers' fees authorized under section 183D-11, collected as fines or bail forfeitures for violation of this chapter or any provision of chapter 195D concerning wildlife conservation; [and]

     (4)  Moneys collected from the sale of:

         (A)  Any article, in addition to a hunting license, which a person is required to purchase from the department in order to hunt, when the requirement is established by law or rule; and

         (B)  Any work of art upon which the article under subparagraph (A) is based[.]; and

     (5)  Moneys transferred from the special land and development fund pursuant to section 171-19(a)."

     SECTION 3.  Section 198D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

     "(d)  The moneys specified in subsection (b)(1), (3), (4), and (5) shall be deposited in the special land and development fund under section 171-19 for the management, maintenance, and development of trails and trail accesses under the jurisdiction of the department[;], except for amounts transferred from the special land and development fund to the wildlife revolving fund pursuant to section 171-19(a)(11); provided that the moneys specified in subsection (b)(5) shall be expended for the management, maintenance, and development of trails and access areas frequented by visitors in response to a master plan developed in coordination with the Hawaii tourism authority."

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

DLNR; Program Funding

 

Description:

Authorizes deposit of funds for the trail and access program into the wildlife revolving fund via the special land and development fund.

 

 

 

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