Bill Text: HI SB1392 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Lands; Agriculture; Agricultural Enterprise; Lease or Sale

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1392 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1392-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 175

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1392

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1392 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 create a new regulatory provision governing the lease or sale of public land to agricultural enterprises.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure provides a mechanism for the disposition of certain public lands for agricultural use by lease, lease with option to purchase, or in fee simple.  Your Committees further find that dispositions under this measure shall be made only to agricultural enterprises that satisfy specific requirements and conditions. 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1392 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, and Housing,

 

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair		____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair