STAND. COM. REP. NO. 888

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1457

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1457 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NORTH KOHALA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Land and Natural Resources to renew it efforts to acquire, through land exchange, lands adjacent to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument.

Your Committee notes that Act 166, Session Laws of Hawaii 1992 (Act 166), directed the Board of Land and Natural Resources to acquire by gift or land exchange certain described parcels of property in North Kohala and designate the acquired lands as part of the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument. Since the enactment of Act 166, the State has been unsuccessful in acquiring the described parcels; however, the parcels are still necessary to provide access to and protect those parcels that are already under state ownership and are part of the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument.

Your Committee has made technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1457, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1457, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair