Bill Text: HI SB699 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Environmental Quality Control; Fees; Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB699 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB699-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1539

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 699

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

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. 699, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CONTROL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure adequate environmental protection in the State by providing additional support to the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC).  Specifically, this measure requires OEQC to establish filing and other fees, permits the collection of interim filing fees, and establishes the Environmental Review Special Fund to accept the fees and other moneys meant to support OEQC.

 

     OEQC and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The City and County of Honolulu Department of Design and Construction and the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Permitting moneys in the Environmental Review Special Fund to be used as part of OEQC's base budget;

 

     (2)  Establishing the filing fees OEQC may collect in statute rather than permitting interim filing fees until the establishment of filing fees by rules adopted by OEQC; 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. 699, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 699, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair