Bill Text: HI SB1262 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Increased Funding For Land Conservation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-13 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB1262 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB1262-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO INCREASED FUNDING FOR LAND CONSERVATION.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1.
The legislature finds that in Act 156,
Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, the legislature recognized the value of Hawaii's
natural resources to its economy, culture, and quality of life, but an
alarmingly small amount of money is invested each year to protect the State's
natural capital base.
The
legislature also finds that there is a clear nexus between the source of the
conveyance tax and providing funding for land conservation. The development, sale, and improvement of
real estate in Hawaii add additional pressure on natural areas, coastal access,
agricultural production, and Hawaii's water resources and watershed recharge
areas. Funding made available for land
conservation should keep pace with escalating real estate prices and demand.
The
purpose of this Act is to provide increased funding for land conservation by
removing the annual dollar amount cap of the annual proceeds from the
conveyance tax to the land conservation fund.
SECTION
2. Section 247-7, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§247-7 Disposition
of taxes. All
taxes collected under this chapter shall be paid into the state treasury to the
credit of the general fund of the State, to be used and expended for the
purposes for which the general fund was created and exists by law; provided that
of the taxes collected each fiscal year:
(1) Ten per cent [or $6,800,000, whichever is
less,] shall be paid into the land conservation fund established pursuant
to section 173A-5; and
(2) Fifty per cent or $38,000,000, whichever is
less, shall be paid into the rental housing revolving fund established by
section 201H-202."
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the land conservation fund the sum of $7,482,115 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019-2020 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for resource land acquisition.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of land and natural resources for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4.
Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on December 31, 2050.
Report Title:
Land Conservation Fund; Conveyance Tax; Appropriation
Description:
Adjusts the proportion of conveyance tax revenues deposited into the Land Conservation Fund. Appropriates funds from the land conservation fund for resource land acquisition. Takes effect 12/31/2050. (SD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
