STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1574

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 5

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 5, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide fair compensation, in addition to rent reductions, to lessees when the State withdraws, condemns, or takes public land leased for intensive agricultural or pastoral uses and renders the land unusable for the original purposes of the lease.

 

     Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; KK Ranch; Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc.; Ulupono Initiative; 4 Ag Hawaii; Mikilua Poultry Farm, Inc.; Kealia Ranch; Hawaii Aquaculture and Aquaponics Association; Wong's Meat Market Ltd; Maui Cattlemen's Association; and several concerned individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Department of Agriculture offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 5, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 5, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair