Bill Text: HI HB922 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Land Trust Lands; 999-Year Homestead Lease; Assignment

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB922 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB922-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1253

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 922

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 922, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to, among other things:

 

     (1)  Allow 999-year homestead leases to be assigned to land trusts that are created for managing and holding the homestead leasehold estate for the benefit of the lessee and lessee's family members;

 

     (2)  Authorize exemptions from state and county permits for the Hawaii Marine Laboratory Refuge for repair and maintenance of its facilities on Coconut Island;

 

     (3)  Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to initiate and coordinate all efforts to establish a public lands information system; and

 

     (4)  Appropriate funds for a comprehensive statewide public land trust inventory database and funding for one staff position for a database and application developer. 

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System and four individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and one individual. 

 

     Your Committees find that H.B. No. 377, S.D. 1, also addresses the subject matter contained in Part II of this measure, relating to Coconut Island, and that the inclusion of this language in this measure is duplicative and unnecessary.  Additionally, your Committees heard testimony indicating that the use of the terms "public lands" and "public land inventory" throughout the measure could be misconstrued. 

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing part II of the measure;

 

     (2)  Changing references from "public lands" and "public land inventory" to "public land trust lands" and "inventory of public land trust lands", respectively; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 922, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 922, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

 

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair