STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3287

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2288

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2288, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to lease any department-owned or -controlled improvements, or space within an improvement, on Hawaiian home lands through direct negotiations and at a fair market rent for a period of not more than five years.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands owns many buildings and warehouses whose general leases are set to expire and that it is not feasible for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to enter into short-term leases for the space.  Your Committee believes that this measure will allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands greater flexibility in generating sufficient revenue to carry out the purposes of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as well as accelerate the development of Hawaiian homestead lands for the benefit of native Hawaiians.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2288, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2288, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair