STAND. COM. REP. NO. 43-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 1939

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 1939 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that a meeting of the Board of Land and Natural Resources to consider the disposition or setting aside of any public lands to any department or agency of the State, county, or political subdivision of the State be held in the Senate District where the lands are located.

The Board of Land and Natural Resources offered comments to this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure:

(1) To extend this requirement to include any disposition of public lands to any person; and

(2) To exempt from this requirement minor dispositions, including by not limited to permits, licenses, rights of entry, or grants to any state or county department or agency for roadway or infrastructure improvements.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1939, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1939, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair