HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THE TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2005
COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, & OCEAN RESOURCES |
Rep. Ezra Kanoho, Chair |
Rep. Brian Schatz, Vice Chair |
Rep. Lyla B. Berg, Ph.D. |
Rep. Tommy Waters |
Rep. Cindy Evans |
Rep. Colleen Rose Meyer |
Rep. Hermina M. Morita |
Rep. Cynthia Thielen |
NOTICE OF HEARING
DATE: |
Friday, February 11, 2005 |
TIME: |
8:30 a.m. |
PLACE: |
Conference Room 423 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
HB 1225 |
RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Provides a stable funding mechanism to provide for the natural area reserves system. |
WLO, FIN |
HB 1308 |
RELATING TO LAND CONSERVATION. Requires 25% of real estate conveyance tax collected be deposited into the land conservation fund. Allows grants to state agencies, counties, and nonprofit land conservation organizations to acquire interest in lands having a value as a resource to the State. |
WLO, FIN |
HB 1243 |
RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. Changes the conveyance tax rate to an unspecified rate; establishes that projects undertaken in accordance with management of the natural area reserves system are included in the list of priorities for funds disbursed from the natural area reserve fund. |
WLO, FIN |
HB 1476 |
RELATING TO NORTH KOHALA. Preserves a cluster of historical sites in North Kohala on the island of Hawaii by requiring the department of land and natural resources to renew its efforts to acquire by exchange the land adjacent to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument. |
WLO, FIN |
HB 953 |
RELATING TO DROUGHT. Requires the Commission on Water Resource Management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a Hawaii drought preparedness plan to be included in the Hawaii Water Plan to improve state drought monitoring, planning, mitigation, and response efforts. |
WLO, FIN |
HB 1627 |
RELATING TO WATER CONSERVATION. Prohibits use of potable water to irrigate golf courses by 2010 except where there is no reasonably available source of nonpotable water or use of nonpotable water poses a threat to public health and safety or other surface and ground water uses. Defines potable water. Emphasizes role of recycled water in comprehensive water resource planning and management policy. |
WLO, FIN |
HB 1757 |
RELATING TO CONSERVATION LAND. Provides an unspecified percentage for a conservation land tax credit, based on land (not exceeding an unspecified value), donated to and accepted by the State that is in a conservation land use district or for a land owner who voluntarily reclassifies residentially zoned land to conservation and initiates the rezoning process, or for amounts invested in management of conservation or watershed land. |
WLO, FIN |
HB 833 |
RELATING TO PROPERTY RIGHTS. Makes owner of residential real property immune from liability for damages suffered by a person who trespasses with intent to commit a crime. Makes trespass on the premises of a dwelling a misdemeanor. Makes theft of property from the premises of a dwelling a misdemeanor. |
WLO, JUD |
HB 864 |
RELATING TO COUNTIES. Extends the several counties' a Authority to regulate billboards and other outdoor advertising devices to include the airspace or waters beyond the boundaries of a county that are visible from any public place within the county. |
WLO, JUD |
HB 1527 |
RELATING TO EMINENT DOMAIN. Establishes factors to be considered in determining value of property to be condemned. |
WLO, JUD |
DECISION MAKING ONLY FOR THE FOLLOWING BILLS PREVIOUSLY HEARD ON FEBRUARY 7, 2005.
HB 1441 |
RELATING TO LAND USE. Clarifies the process to appeal county land use decisions. |
WLO, JUD |
HB 1391 |
RELATING TO PRIVATE ROADS. Requires owners of private roads to maintain private roads pursuant to agreement or in absence of agreement in equal shares. |
WLO, FIN |
DECISION MAKING ONLY FOR THE FOLLOWING BILL PREVIOUSLY HEARD ON FEBRUARY 4, 2005.
HB 1280 |
RELATING TO FLOOD CONTROL. Appropriates $250,000 for fiscal year 2005-2006 and $500,000 for fiscal year 2006-2007 for the Center for Conservation and Research Training to develop and coordinate the implementations of watershed management strategies to control flooding in two of Hawaii's most severely flood-impacted watersheds as identified by the Center. |
WLO, FIN |
DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW
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________________________________________ Rep. Ezra R. Kanoho Chair |