STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 374-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 2653
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2018
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2653 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL SHORELINE ENCROACHMENT EASEMENTS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Planning, Quicksilver Charters, and an individual supported this measure. Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee opposed this measure.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the location where qualified coastal landowners can relocate their private structures to landward of the shoreline setback line, as it is defined in Hawaii Revised Statutes;
(2) Requiring the special shoreline encroachment easements to receive prior authorization of the Legislature by concurrent resolution; and
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2653, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2653, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,
____________________________ KANIELA ING, Chair |
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____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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