Bill Text: HI SB1085 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Ceded Lands; Public Land Trust; Management

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1085 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1085-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 787

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1085

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1085, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the Board of Land and Natural Resources from selling, exchanging, or otherwise alienating ceded lands in the public land trust.

 

     Your Committee believes that it is necessary to reaffirm the Legislature's sole authority under the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to address and oversee the management of the ceded land trust. 

 

Your Committee also finds that a moratorium on the sale or transfer of ceded lands until the issues and claims between Native Hawaiians and the State regarding these lands are resolved is essential to fulfill the Legislature's fiduciary duty to preserve the corpus of the public land trust.  This measure preserves the public land trust to ensure the availability of those lands for a fair and just settlement leading to reconciliation with the Native Hawaiian people.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Making technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes; and

 

(2)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to ensure ongoing discussions and further consideration on this very important issue.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1085, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1085, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair