Bill Text: HI SB1157 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Starlight Reserve; Advisory Committee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-01 - Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 05-01-15 at 4:46PM in Conference Room 423. [SB1157 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-SB1157-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1157

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO STARLIGHT RESERVE.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Act 161, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, section 2, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  The department of business, economic development, and tourism shall develop a statewide starlight reserve strategy.  The department of business, economic development, and tourism shall be assisted by [a temporary] an advisory committee, to be placed within the department for administrative purposes.  The members of the [temporary] advisory committee shall consist of:

     (1)  The director of [the department of] business, economic development, and tourism or the director's designee;

     (2)  The comptroller or the comptroller's designee;

     (3)  The director of the institute for astronomy of the University of Hawaii or the director's designee;

     (4)  The director of health or the director's designee;

     (5)  The director of transportation or the director's designee;

     (6)  The chairperson of the board of land and natural resources or the chairperson's designee;

     (7)  The offices of the mayors of the counties of Kauai, Maui, Hawaii, and the city and county of Honolulu or the mayors' designees;

     (8)  The [chairperson] administrator of the office of Hawaiian affairs or the [chairperson's] administrator's designee;

     (9)  A member of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society, selected by its board of directors; and

    (10)  A lighting engineer selected by the director of the department of business, economic development, and tourism."

     SECTION 2.  Act 161, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, as amended by Act 39, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, as amended by Act 109, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, is amended by repealing section 6.

     ["SECTION 6.  Report; advisory committee terminated.  (a)  The department of business, economic development, and tourism shall submit a final report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2010.  The report shall include findings, recommendations, and necessary proposed legislation to implement this part.

     (b)  The advisory committee created in this part shall be terminated on June 30, 2015."]

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2015.

 


 


 

Report Title:

Starlight Reserve; Advisory Committee

 

Description:

Changes the Starlight Reserve advisory committee from a temporary committee to a permanent committee.  Amends the office of Hawaiian affairs' representative on the committee.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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