STAND. COM. REP. 2204

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2053

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2053 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPACT FEES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to restrict spending of impact fees for any developments other than the one that was assessed the impact fee.

The Director of Transportation submitted testimony supporting the intent of the measure. The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii submitted testimony in opposition to the measure.

Your Committees found little support for the measure in its original form. However, your Committees found merit in the concept of restricting the expenditure of impact fees to improvements in the county in which the fees are assessed.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended the measure, as suggested by the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, by replacing its contents with the contents of S.B. No. 1404, S.D. 1 and by adding a restriction on the expenditure of impact fees to the county in which the fees are assessed. As so amended, this measure clarifies county authority to assess impact fees for state highway improvements, and creates a new special fund for the Department of Transportation to administer county impact fees assessed for state highway projects and restricts the use of impact fees to the county in which they are assessed.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Water, Land, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2053, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2053, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair