STAND. COM. REP. NO. 763

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 176

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 176 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Board of Land and Natural Resources to sell Sand Island Industrial Park parcels to a current lessee under a master lease who has expressed a strong interest in purchasing the fee interest in their leasehold lots.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Sand Island Business Association.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kona Kai Ea chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, Kupuna for the Moopuna, and five individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will allow small businesses to reinvest in and improve the Sand Island Industrial Park through fee ownership and controlled rent escalation.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding a part I to the measure that amends section 171‑136, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to require each industrial park lease to include a specific rent escalation clause;

 

     (2)  Creating a part II that adds a new section to Chapter 171, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the sale of public lands within the industrial park to existing lessees;

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (4)  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 S.B. No. 176, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 176, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair