STAND. COM. REP. NO.  816

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 268

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 268, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the accuracy of real property tax assessments by requiring the assistant registrar of the Land Court to provide the administrator of the real property assessment division of the City and County of Honolulu an image and index of all instruments, writs, and other process that have been recorded in the assistant registrar's office relating to registered land in all the counties.

 

     The Real Property Tax Division of the County of Hawaii Department of Finance supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure.  The City and County of Honolulu and Real Property Tax Division of the County of Maui Department of Finance offered comments.

 

     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. 268, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair