STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1001

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 618

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 618, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND LEASES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to set a deadline in which certain non-agricultural park lands of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) are to be transferred to the Department of Agriculture (DOA).

 

     Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc., Kapapala Ranch, Hawaii Cattlemen's Association, Maui Cattlemen's Association, and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  DOA and DLNR commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 618, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 618, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair