STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1134

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1529

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1529, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PLANNING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a task force to:

 

     (1)  Review and update the Hawaii State Planning Act; and

 

     (2)  Review and update the planning, programming, and budgeting system of the State.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Aha Kiole Advisory Committee and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Planning, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter; Nicole Lowen; and Janice Palma-Glennie.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance and Office of Information Practices of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

 

     Your Committees find that the Office of Planning and the Department of Budget and Finance may not have the staff and fiscal resources to provide the administrative, technical, professional, and clerical support required by the task force to review and update the Hawaii State Planning Act and the state planning, programming, and budgeting system.

 

     Your Committees further find that meaningful planning for the future of our State cannot occur without addressing the unresolved claims of Native Hawaiians to lands within the State.  Long-term planning to address social ills, including the lack of availability of affordable housing, will continue to be hampered unless a Native Hawaiian governing entity is recognized by the State of Hawaii and can negotiate with the State of Hawaii to resolve the claims of the Native Hawaiian people.

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting its contents and replacing them with the contents of S.B. No. 1520, S.D. 2, which, among other things:

 

     (A)  Establishes a nine-member Native Hawaiian Roll Commission to prepare, maintain, and certify a roll of qualified Native Hawaiian constituents for the purpose of reorganizing a first nation government;

 

     (B)  Establishes a process for the election of members to an Interim First Nation Governing Council;

 

     (C)  Establishes a process for the preparation and ratification of organic governing documents for the first nation government; and

 

     (D)  Appropriates an unspecified sum to be expended by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the purposes of this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1529, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1529, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Ways and Means,

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair