Bill Text: HI HB2151 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Land Use; Agricultural-Based Commercial Operations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-21 - (H) The committee(s) on WLO recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2151 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2151-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  588-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2151

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2151 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL-BASED COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to define agricultural-based commercial operations and authorize agricultural-based commercial operations in agricultural districts.

 

     Kahuku Farms, Kawailoa Plantation, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Agriculture testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation and Maui County Farm Bureau testified in support of this measure with amendments.  The City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources further examine the possible issues and challenges regarding the installation of solar photovoltaic systems on agricultural lands where there is no potable water.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Further clarifying the definition of "agricultural-based commercial operations";

 

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2012, and a sunset date of June 30, 2015; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2151, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2151, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Economic Revitalization & Business,

 

 

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair		____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair