Bill Text: HI HB1227 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 1227 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Iolani Palace; DAGS; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-13 at 5:15pm in Conference Room 224. [HB1227 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1227-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1040

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1227

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

Your Committees on Water and Land and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1227, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IOLANI PALACE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete planned phase I and phase II of the Iolani Palace grounds master plan.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Accounting and General Services, The Friends of Iolani Palace, and The Outdoor Circle.

Your Committees find that Iolani Palace is the only royal palace in the United States in which a reigning monarch lived, and is an icon of the State. Iolani Palace should be one of the State's most protected historical sites due to its importance to the people of Hawaii. The Palace is also a reminder of the Kingdom of Hawaii; it was constructed in 1879, making it one of the State's oldest buildings.

The Friends of Iolani Palace have long planned to restore the Iolani Palace grounds to the condition in which they existed in 1892, including through the removal of parking meters and restoring landscaping and other exterior features, in accordance with a three-phase master plan.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Amending the phase I appropriation language to make it an appropriation of $225,000 for staff and supplies for maintenance of landscaped areas of Iolani Palace grounds, to be expended by the Department of Accounting and General Services;

(2) Deleting the appropriation for initiation and completion of phase II of the Iolani Palace grounds master plan, since the testimony of the Department of Accounting and General Services indicated that the work on phase II is anticipated to be funded as a capital improvement project; and

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1227, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1227, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Technology and the Arts,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair