Bill Text: HI SB2378 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Legacy Land Acquisitions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 284, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1387). [SB2378 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2378-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2731

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2378

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2378, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to focus conservation efforts under the legacy lands program.

 

     Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires nonprofit land conservation organizations to provide a conservation easement, deed restriction, or covenant as a condition of public funding;

 

     (2)  Requires, as a condition of public funding, that the Board of the Land and Natural Resources be made a full or partial owner of any conservation land provided by a state or county agency or nonprofit land conservation organization;

 

     (3)  Allows the Board to grant exemptions from the easement requirements; and

 

     (4)  Requires applicants to demonstrate the project's public benefit and to consult with the staff of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, Agribusiness Development Corporation, and the Public Land Development Corporation.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Trust for Public Land.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will help ensure the appropriate management of legacy lands by nonprofit land conservation organizations.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2378, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair