HB245 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
| Report Title: Historic Preservation; Historic Property. |
| Description: Amends the definition of “historic property” under the historic preservation law to include the requirement that buildings, inclusive of privately owned homes, meet the criteria for being entered into the Hawaii register of historic places. (HD1) |
HB343 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO CONTESTED CASES. |
| Report Title: Contested Case Hearings; Hearings Officers; Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; State Agencies. |
| Description: Requires any state agency that does not have hearings officers on its staff to arrange with the department of commerce and consumer affairs to have its contested case hearings heard by hearings officers of the department. Allows the department of commerce and consumer affairs to charge a fee for conducting these hearings. |
HB344 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title:RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
| Report Title: Public Lands; Governor; Set Aside Lands; HHFDC; DLNR |
| Description: Exempts lands set aside by the Governor to HHFDC for the primary purpose of developing affordable housing from classification as public land subject to DLNR management. Provides that lands set aside to HHFDC and no longer needed for housing, finance, and development purposes be returned to the public trust administered by DLNR. Takes effect on 7/1/2025. (HD1) |
HB467 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title:RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
| Report Title: DLNR; Public Lands; Redevelopment; Waiakea Peninsula ($) |
| Description: EAuthorizes the designation of areas or regions of public lands classified as commercial, industrial, resort and hotel, and the establishment and implementation of guidelines for the redevelopment of the areas or regions that will: (1) modernize the policies for the management of public lands in the designated area; (2) establish a plan for the designated area, including district-wide improvements, that is coordinated with state and county land use and planning policies; and (3) implement asset and property management concepts that can optimize income from the properties and evolve in response to changing principles of property administration. Designates the public lands on the Waiakea peninsula on the island of Hawaii as the Waiakea peninsula redevelopment district. Allows the department of land and natural resources to issue a rent reduction or waiver for certain lessee’s expenses for demolition or provision of basic infrastructure. Authorizes a local redevelopment agency to contract with a developer for construction of non-residential projects on public land within a redevelopment area. Exempts the costs of construction of work or improvements of a redevelopment project from general excise and use taxes. Effective 1/1/2050. (HD1) |
HB499 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title:RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
| Report Title: Public Lands; Lease Extension; Development Agreement |
| Description: Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to extend certain leases of public lands for commercial, industrial, resort, mixed-use, or government use upon approval of a proposed development agreement to make substantial improvements to the existing improvements. (CD1) |
HB629 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. |
| Report Title: Law Enforcement; Attorney General; DLNR; PSD; DOT; Judiciary; Service of Process |
| Description: Establishes an enforcement division in the department of the attorney general. Transfers to the department of the attorney general enforcement division the law enforcement activities of the department of land and natural resources, division of conservation and resources enforcement; the department of public safety state law enforcement officers and the narcotics enforcement division; and the department of transportation harbors division. Specifies the persons authorized to serve civil legal process. Mandates the attorney general to maintain a list of independent civil process servers. Shields the State and the department of the attorney general from liability arising from the acts of independent civil process servers. Effective 7/1/2022. |
HB686 | KPAC Testimony 1 , 2 (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO CRITICAL ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. |
| Report Title: Critical Electrical Infrastructure; Burglary Offense |
| Description: Amends the offense of burglary in the second degree to include intentionally entering or remaining unlawfully on a critical electrical infrastructure…. (HD2) |
HB784 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO TRESPASS. |
| Report Title: Trespass; Public Land; Ownership; Enforcement |
| Description: Clarifies that when trespass involves public land, all law enforcement officers shall enforce trespass laws, without regard to whether the land is owned by the State or by a county. |
SB2 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
| Report Title: Historic Preservation; Historic Property. |
| Description: Amends the definition of “historic property” under the historic preservation law to include the requirement that buildings, inclusive of privately owned homes, meet the criteria for being entered into the Hawaii register of historic places. (HD1) |
SB749 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
| Report Title: Historic Preservation; Historic Property. |
| Description: Amends the definition of “historic property” under the historic preservation law to include the requirement that buildings, inclusive of privately owned homes, meet the criteria for being entered into the Hawaii register of historic places. (HD1) |
GM1 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Office of the Governor Press Releases: OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR NEWS RELEASE: GOVERNOR IGE APPOINTS DANIEL GLUCK TO INTERMEDIATE COURT OF APPEALS |
| Description: Gov. David Ige has appointed Executive Director/General Counsel of the Hawai‘i State Ethics Commission Daniel Gluck to the Intermediate Court of Appeals. If confirmed by the State Senate, Gluck will fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Associate Judge Derrick H.M. Chan last October. |
HB499 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO LEASE EXTENSIONS ON PUBLIC LAND. |
| Report Title: Public Lands; Lease Extension; Development Agreement |
| Description: Authorizes the board of land and natural resources to extend certain leases of public lands for commercial, industrial, resort, mixed-use, or government use upon approval of a proposed development agreement to make substantial improvements to the existing improvements. (CD1) |
SB612 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION. |
| Report Title: Historic Preservation; Historic Property. |
| Description: Amends the definition of “historic property” under the historic preservation law to include the requirement that buildings, inclusive of privately owned homes, meet the criteria for being entered into the Hawaii register of historic places. (HD1) |
SB257 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO LEASE EXTENSIONS ON PUBLIC LAND. |
| Report Title: BLNR; Public Lands; Lease Extension; Development Agreement |
| Description: Requires the board of land and natural resources to establish a public lands lease extension pilot project to extend certain leases of public lands for commercial, industrial, resort, mixed-use, or government use upon approval of a proposed development agreement to make substantial improvements to the existing improvements. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2) |
SB1318 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO KULEANA LANDS. |
| Report Title: Real Property; Kuleana Land; Quiet Title |
| Description: Requires that claimants seeking to quiet title of kuleana land and original land titles that are land commission awards with a royal patent of confirmation which are based on claims to a right to the land before 1848 shall own more than fifty per cent of the land. Requires that the plaintiff bear the costs associated with resolving quiet title disputes. (SD1) |
HB862 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO STATE GOVERNMENT. |
| Report Title: Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems; University of Hawaii at Hilo; Challenger Center Hawaii Program; Tourism Special Fund; Hawaii Tourism Authority; County Transient Accommodations Tax; Appropriation ($) |
| Description: Abolishes the office of aerospace development, aerospace advisory committee, and Hawaii unmanned aerial systems test site advisory board. Transfers administration of the Pacific international space center for exploration systems from DBEDT to the University of Hawaii at Hilo. Transfers the administration of and the budget for the Challenger center Hawaii program from the office of aerospace development to DOE. Decreases transient accommodations tax allocation to the convention center enterprise special fund. Repeals transient accommodation tax allocation to the counties. Authorizes the counties to establish a county transient accommodations tax at a rate not to exceed three per cent. Effective 1/1/2022, repeals the tourism special fund and repeals certain compensation package limits for the president and chief executive officer of HTA. Repeals the HTA’s exemption from the public procurement code. Makes an appropriation for HTA. (CD1) |
HB902 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
| Report Title: Public Lands; HHFDC |
| Description: Exempts land set aside by the governor to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and lands leased to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from other state departments or agencies from classification as public lands subject to Department of Land and Natural Resources management. Requires the land to be subject to legislative approval prior to the sale or gift of those lands. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to return any land set aside by the governor or leased lands no longer needed for housing, finance, or development. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2) |
HCR41 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: CONVENING A WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE FOR MAUNA KEA. |
| Report Title: Mauna Kea; Management Structure; Working Group |
| Description: House Resolution 33 / House Concurrent Resolution 41 which would establish a so-called “Working Group” tasked with developing recommendations for a new governance and management structure for Mauna Kea. |
HB 902 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
| Report Title: Public Lands; HHFDC |
| Description: Exempts land set aside by the governor to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and lands leased to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from other state departments or agencies from classification as public lands subject to Department of Land and Natural Resources management. Requires the land to be subject to legislative approval prior to the sale or gift of those lands. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to return any land set aside by the governor or leased lands no longer needed for housing, finance, or development. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2) |
SB2 SD2 HD2 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Measure Title: RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS. |
| Report Title: Public Lands; Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Affordable Housing. |
| Description: Clarifies that lands set aside by the governor to the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation or leased to the corporation by other state departments or agencies are exempt from the definition of “public lands”. Clarifies that lands set aside by the governor or leased to the Hawaii housing finance development corporation from other state departments or agencies are subject to legislative approval prior to the sale or gift of those lands. Requires the corporation to return any land leased to the corporation by other state departments or agencies if the land is no longer needed for housing, finance, or development. Requires the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation to give preference to individuals on the department of Hawaiian home lands waiting list regarding government or crown lands set aside or leased to the corporation prior to the corporation developing or financing an affordable housing development on those lands. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2) |
HCR131 | KPAC Testimony (pdf)
| Title: requesting the establishment of a burial sites working group to review and RECOMMEND improvements to the burial sites program within the state historic preservation division. |
| Description: WHEREAS, the Legislature acknowledges the State’s duty to native Hawaiians is firmly established in the state constitution in article XII; and WHEREAS, the Legislature and the State also recognize their unique trust relationship with native Hawaiians; and WHEREAS, the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ mission is to “[e]nhance, protect, conserve and manage Hawaii’s unique and limited natural, cultural and historic resources held in public trust for current and future generations of the people of Hawaii nei, and its visitors, in partnership with others from the public and private sectors”; and |