STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1512

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 116

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 116, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the Department of Land and Natural Resources all real property upon which a public school is situated.

 

     This measure also extends, for an additional five years, the pilot program under section 302A-1151.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the lease of public school land.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Office of the Managing Director of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committee notes that the Attorney General has requested that the measure be amended to provide that all quitclaim deeds for real property transferred under this measure be reviewed and approved by the Department of the Attorney General prior to execution and recordation.

 

     Your Committee further notes that the Department of Land and Natural Resources has indicated that $3,600,000 would be required to subdivide the thirty-six parcels noted in section 2(d) of this measure.  Alternatively, if the conveyances required by this measure were to be exempted from the subdivision requirement as a cost-saving measure, the Department estimated they would still require at least $1,100,000 for a surveyed legal metes and bounds description and map.

 

     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. 116, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair