STAND. COM. REP. NO. 156-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 1928

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 Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1928 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to grant the Board of Land and Natural Resources additional leeway in:

(1) Amending commercial, hotel, industrial, and agricultural leases of public lands by negotiation; and

(2) Permitting the disposition by lease of public lands for agricultural purposes to encourage competition within the agricultural industry.

The Board of Land and Natural Resources testified in opposition to this measure stating that there was great demand for agricultural lands and opposed extending agricultural leases by negotiation. Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Springer Development Incorporated, and International Longshore and Wharehouse Union, Local 142.

Your Committees amended this measure by deleting the inappropriate addition of "agricultural leases" to section 171-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which is restricted to commercial, hotel, and industrial leases. Your Committees note that the amendment for direct negotiations of agricultural leases is retained in section three of this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1928, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1928, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture,

 

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FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair