Bill Text: HI SB483 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Administrative Procedures; Time Period to Review Applications for County Permits

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL. [SB483 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB483-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 371

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 483

       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 Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 483 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to facilitate the timely processing of applications for business or development-related permits, licenses, or approvals by amending section 91‑13.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require state agencies to comply with county rules specifying a maximum time period to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Office of Planning.

 

     Your Committees find that under existing law, some state agencies have established maximum time periods in which to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval that conflict with county rules establishing maximum time periods to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval.  This situation results in considerable delay and inefficiency in obtaining business or development-related permits, licenses, or approvals.  This measure is intended to reduce this delay and inefficiency by requiring state agencies to comply with county rules establishing a maximum time period in which to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval, if any such rules have been adopted by the county.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying that where a county agency has not adopted rules specifying a maximum time period in which to grant or deny a business or development-related permit, license, or approval and a state agency has done so, the time period under state law shall prevail.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 483, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 483, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair