Bill Text: HI SB1311 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Habitat Conservation Plans; Fees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB1311 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1311-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1481

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1311

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1311, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEES FOR HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to:

 

(1)  Authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to collect fees to cover the technical assistance program costs associated with assisting landowners in developing habitat conservation plans through technical assistance; and

 

     (2)  Requiring DLNR to adopt rules for establishing the fees.

 

     DLNR; the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Earthjustice commented on this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Clarifying that the fees authorized to cover the technical assistance program costs are to be deposited into the Endangered Species Trust Fund under section 195D-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1311, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1311, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair