STAND. COM. REP. NO. 369-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2937

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2937 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERMIT APPROVALS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal the automatic permit approval law.

The Office of the Governor, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, and the Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter testified in support of this bill. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs testified in support of the intent of this measure. The General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Reserves, Inc., and the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii testified in opposition.

Your Committee finds it prudent to rescind the automatic permit approval law to restore public confidence in the deliberative process engaged in by those entrusted to make decisions with long-ranging impact on Hawaii's precious environment.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2937 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair