STAND. COM. REP. NO. 890

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 270

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 270 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COUNTIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate the public auction requirement for the disposition of easements of county property for a specific purpose.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the City and County of Honolulu and Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.

 

     Your Committees find that eliminating the public auction requirement for the disposition of easements will streamline the process whereby the counties, upon approval of the respective county council, can grant easements over county land.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 270, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 270, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair