STAND. COM. REP. 2121

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2820

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2820 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Clarify the law on the transferred encumbrances of non-agricultural park lands by the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

(2) Remove the requirement that transfer of non-agricultural park lands be adjacent to one another if the transfer includes more than one parcel.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Agriculture (DOA).

Your Committee finds that this clarifying language is necessary for the purpose of consistency, and that the restriction on geographical adjacency severely limits the availability of transferable lands and renders the non-agricultural parks program inoperable, and its repeal will further the goals of the department.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2820 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair