STAND. COM. REP. NO.  243-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2464

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2464 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDOWNERS' LIABILITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the definition of "land" with respect to landowner liability to include government lands.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of the Attorney General, and the Department of the Corporation Counsel of the City and County of Honolulu submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Association for Justice submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2020, for the purposes of facilitating further discussion; and

 

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


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2464, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2464, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

 

 

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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair