Bill Text: HI HB1292 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Land; Alienation; Legislative Approval

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to WTL, WAM. [HB1292 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1292-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  776

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1292

      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 H.B. No. 1292 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require that all dispositions of public land in fee simple or by lease with option to purchase and executions of quitclaim deeds by the Department of Land and Natural Resources be subject to the express approval of the Legislature by concurrent resolution to be adopted by at least a two-thirds majority vote of the members to which each house is entitled.

 

     Several individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  An individual provided testimony in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and an individual provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, for the purpose 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1292, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1292, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair