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Budget committee advances bill to repeal outdated permit-fee waivers
Summary
The Honolulu City Council Committee on Budget voted to report Bill 40‑1‑20‑25 out for passage on third reading; the Department of Planning and Permitting called the measure a housekeeping repeal of obsolete permit-fee waivers tied to job creation.
The Honolulu City Council Committee on Budget unanimously recommended Friday that Bill 40‑1‑20‑25, which would repeal outdated provisions allowing waivers of permit fees for businesses that create new jobs, be reported out for passage on third reading.
The measure attracted only brief discussion. Donna Apuna, director of the Department of Planning and Permitting, told the committee she supported the bill and described it as a "housekeeping measure." Committee members took no public testimony and raised no objections before the chair moved to report the bill out for third reading.
The bill would remove obsolete or unnecessary provisions that previously permitted fee waivers tied to job-creation incentives. The committee did not introduce amendments during the meeting, and no formal roll-call vote on the third-reading recommendation was recorded in the transcript; the chair stated "hearing none, so ordered." The session record shows no registered or remote testifiers on the item.
Because the committee advanced the bill for third reading, the next formal step will be consideration by the full council on third reading, where a final vote would be taken.
