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2. Review, discussion, and action regarding 2017 proposed legislations that involve or pertain to
<br /> properties within the Banyan Drive redevelopment area. Review and discussion to include House Bill
<br /> (HB) 575, Senate Bill (SB) 274, HB 1310, SB 1184,HB 1469, SB 1185,HB 1479, and SB 1292.
<br /> The most current versions of the bills may be found on the Legislature's website at
<br /> www.caov_
<br /> DELIMA: I'll yield to you; you can start us off.
<br /> MEAD: Sounds good. As we heard earlier, and we heard from the testimony,there's quite a
<br /> few bills in Legislature this session regarding properties that are within the Banyan Drive
<br /> Hawaii Redevelopment Agency. And this is a quick, what I'll do is a quick overview. For
<br /> those of you who are not,this is also for the public, for those of you who are not familiar with
<br /> how the Legislature works on these bills, this is just a quick, and I apologize for how small it
<br /> isI see it right now,but I'll try to guide you through it. It's essentially from the Leg's
<br /> website on how a bill becomes a law. Bills are brought in at either the House or the Senate
<br /> level, and they go through an assignment to various committees, and they're heard through
<br /> these committees on both sides, so a bill in our case we have four separate bills that are
<br /> actually eight because there's a House and a Senate version. They're carried through the
<br /> respective branches with amendments being made and voted upon, and then they go over
<br /> what's called crossover,where House bill or Senate bill then flips to the other side,to the
<br /> other House or the other Senate, and there essentially go through the same process. At the
<br /> end of that,what happens is if these bills are alive, if they've made it through all their
<br /> hearings,they essentially, any amendments that are made to those bills are then heard by the
<br /> other branch, and either agreed upon or changes are made,before they're presented to the
<br /> Governor for either his approval; they can either not be signed, it could be signed, or it can be
<br /> vetoed. It can be kind of complicated, and it's a very active process with lots of changes, and
<br /> so today, forgive me, as it was mentioned earlier, there's going to be, there's quite a bit of
<br /> action that's being heard right now actually, one of them, so there may be changes. We're
<br /> just going to present a really overview of these bills that are active right now, and just to
<br /> provide awareness for the commission, or for the Agency, on what's going on.
<br /> Mr. Mead, for the benefit of the public,provided the website in which to search House and Senate
<br /> bills, current and previous versions, view the status of bills, and review submitted testimony.
<br /> MEAD: There's eight bills that we have, four House, four Senate bills,that involve either
<br /> lands or properties within Banyan Drive, or deal with the leases that involve those lands or
<br /> properties within the Banyan Drive Hawaii Redevelopment Agencies. Some of them extend,
<br /> actually, more than just those direct lands, encompass more lands within Hilo.
<br /> So this first one here, House Bill 575 and its companion Senate Bill 274,this description is
<br /> pulled right from the website over here,but really,the problem that it's trying to address is
<br /> the fact that the State leased lands are, have a 65-year lease maximum on them. And what
<br /> happens is that new leases are brought about at a public auction, and so what happens there is
<br /> that there's little or no incentive for people to invest or for lessees to invest in the structural
<br /> improvements on their properties after a certain amount of time when there's a limited time
<br /> left on a lease. This leads to the situations that we have right now,which kind of lead to the
<br /> blighted designation that we had through the Windward Planning Commission as well. So
<br /> 575 and its companion, 274,proposed to change the State statute that is HRS Chapter 171,
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