STAND. COM. REP. NO.  266

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1424

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1424 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ACQUISITION OF RESOURCE VALUE LANDS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general obligation bonds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources, in consultation with the Hawaiian Island Land Trust, to engage in efforts to acquire a parcel of land located at Lipoa Point.

 

     Two individual members of the Maui County Council; Hawaiian Island Land Trust; the Surfrider Foundation Maui Chapter; Save Honolua Coalition; Hawaii Wildlife Fund; Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc.; Aloha in Action; and numerous individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  An individual provided testimony in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and a few individuals provided comments on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1424 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

 

 

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair		____________________________ FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair