STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3648

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2679

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2679, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING THE TRANSFER OF LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the City and County of Honolulu to transfer various parcels of real property to the Department of Education.

 

This measure also authorizes the Department of Education to hold title to certain real property.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and Hawaii State Teachers Association.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Aina Haina Community Association.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted written comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that transfer of certain parcels of land from the City and County of Honolulu to the Department of Education will allow the Department to better manage the real property on which schools are located and will remove significant barriers that the Department has encountered in the past when attempting to redevelop those parcels.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2679, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2679, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair