Bill Text: HI SB2146 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Planning; Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-10 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2146 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2146-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2169

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2146

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2146 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF PLANNING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Planning Special Fund for the operations of the Office of Planning, including personnel costs.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by Hawaii's Thousand Friends and one concerned individual.  Testimony in opposition of this measure was submitted by the Department of Budget and Finance and the Office of Planning.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     The Office of Planning includes the Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Program and the Land Use Division, and in the face of recent reductions in force, the Office has failed to offer a coherent plan to maintain statutorily-defined requirements in such areas as the CZM Program's Ocean Resources Management Plan, Special Management Area Permit administration, and federal consistency reviews.  Your Committees believe that the immediate short-term and long-term impacts of the position reductions will result in operational inconsistencies and potential harm from federal penalties, including loss of federal funding support for long‑established state programs.  Your Committees find that establishing an alternative funding mechanism to ensure that specialized professional and support positions in the Office of Planning are maintained will provide long-term consistency with respect to the State's position on important agricultural lands and avoid potential federal sanctions arising from any failure to competently administer the federal CZM Program.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Revising the description of moneys that may be deposited into the special fund;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050 for the purpose of further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purpose of clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2146, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2146, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development and Technology,

 

____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair