Bill Text: HI SB1247 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Aloha Tower Development Corporation; Repeal; Appropriation

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). [SB1247 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1247-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1559

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1247

      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. 1247, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ALOHA TOWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the management of the Aloha Tower area, as well as Hawaii's commercial harbors, in light of the elimination of the Aloha Tower Development Corporation (ATDC) by, among other things:

 

     (1)  Establishing the Aloha Tower Complex area under the jurisdiction of Hawaii Community Development Association (HCDA);

 

     (2)  Stipulating that the Department of Transportation (DOT) shall be responsible for the implementation of the commercial harbors modernization plan;

 

     (3)  Transferring all other rights, powers, functions, duties, and assets, including leases, of the ATDC to HCDA; and

    

     (4)  Appropriating funds out of the Aloha Tower Fund for the operating expenses of the Aloha Tower Complex.

 

     The Attorney General; DOT; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT); and HCDA offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Designating DOT, not DBEDT, as having administrative oversight of the ATDC;

 

     (2)  Reducing the members on the ATDC board of directors to three:

 

          (A)  The Director of Transportation;

 

          (B)  The Deputy Director of Transportation, Harbors Division; and

 

          (C)  The Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism;

 

     (3)  Designating DOT, not DBEDT, to receive monies or charges including reimbursements for costs and staff services as a result of planning, development, or redevelopment of the lands located seaward of Nimitz Highway between Pier 4 and Pier 11, rather than between Pier 4 and the Honolulu International Airport, and those monies shall be deposited into the Aloha Tower fund;

 

     (4)  Adding lease payments to DOT as one of the uses for the Aloha Tower fund;

 

     (5)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to promote further discussion; and

    

     (6)  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. 1247, 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. 1247, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair