Bill Text: HI SB1316 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Aloha Tower Development Corporation; Repeal

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1316 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1316-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 837

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1316

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1316, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to abolish the Aloha Tower Development Corporation and transfer all of its functions and powers to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committee finds that the transfer of functions from the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to the Hawaii Community Development Authority, except for the harbors modernization project, is more advantageous to the State.  Currently, the Hawaii Community Development Authority has jurisdiction over the development of Kakaako.  Extending the authority's jurisdiction over the Aloha Tower commercial area will allow consistency with planning and development.

 

     Your Committee further finds that the Department of Transportation, Harbors Division, in consultation with the federal Maritime Administration, is better equipped to oversee the harbors modernization project.  Exemption from the procurement code will also expedite the development and construction of the harbors modernization project.  Your Committee believes that the exemption is necessary, but only for a limited amount of time to jumpstart development activities.

 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended the measure by:

 

     (1)  Transferring the functions of the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to the Hawaii Community Development Authority except for the harbors modernization project;

 

     (2)  Transferring the functions of the harbors modernization project to the Department of Transportation, Harbors Division, in partnership with the United States Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration;

 

     (3)  Authorizing the Hawaii Community Development Corporation, with the approval of the Governor, to issue bonds;

 

     (4)  Establishing the Aloha Tower fund in the Hawaii Community Development Authority for the purposes of collecting all moneys, rentals, charges, or other revenues from the Aloha Tower harbor district;

 

     (5)  Establishing the harbors modernization group that shall have jurisdiction over the commercial harbors modernization plan; and

 

     (6)  Exempting all procurements for the harbors modernization project from chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, until June 30, 2016.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1316, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1316, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair