STAND. COM. REP. NO.  701-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2591

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2591, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that land accreted after May 20, 2003, shall be public land except as otherwise provided by law.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of this measure, with the recommendation that the measure take effect upon its approval.  

 

     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to take effect upon approval; and

 

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

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2591, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2591, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair