STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2080

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2125

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2125 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL FOR THE DISPOSITION OF REMNANTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide the Office of Hawaiian Affairs with the right of first refusal for any disposition of public lands classified as remnants.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Transportation, Aha Moku Advisory Council, The Trust for Public Land, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and thirteen individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committee has heard the testimony of the Department of Land and Natural Resources expressing concerns that the content in section 1 of this measure is inflammatory.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the content in the purpose section that the Department of Land and Natural Resources has objected to; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     Your Committee has also heard the testimony of the Department of Land and Natural Resources expressing concern about the language in section 2 of this measure relating to the reasonable purchase price of easements.  Your Committee finds that this issue raises a concern that merits further consideration and requests that your Committee on Ways and Means further examine this issue if it chooses to hear this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2125, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2125, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair