STAND. COM. REP. NO. 693

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1177

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1177, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMON INTEREST AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish common interest agricultural communities.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau and one individual.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture and Office of Planning.

 

     Your Committees find that the proper use of agricultural land has been of concern to the State for decades, particularly in cases where residential structure violations have occurred.  Common interest agricultural communities may provide a solution for Hawaii's farmers to farm agricultural land and share agricultural infrastructure and other resources in an economically viable way, while establishing greater accountability to ensure proper land use.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1177, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair