STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1032

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2021

 

RE:   S.B. No. 806

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 806 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL LANDS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Attorney General, on behalf of the Department of Education, to institute proceedings to acquire certain land owned by the Mililani Town Association by voluntary action or condemnation.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

 

     Your Committees find that the Mililani Town Association owns certain parcels of land near Mililani High School.  Your Committees further find that the Department of Education intends to use the land to build an access ramp that is compliant with the Americans for Disabilities Act for students, staff, family members, and the general public to use.  Your Committees additionally find that the acquisition of the parcels of land will also give control of a certain walkway that cuts through Mililani High School to the Department of Education, which will reduce cases of vagrancy and ensure safety and security of the school.  This measure provides a legal process for the acquisition of the parcels of land by the State in a manner agreeable to all parties.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 806, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 806, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Water & Land,

 

 

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair

 

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair