STAND. COM. REP. NO.  951

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 5

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 5, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide fair compensation, in addition to rent reductions, to lessees when the State withdraws, condemns, or takes public land leased for intensive agricultural or pastoral uses and renders the land unusable for the original purposes of the lease.

 

     Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Inc.; Ulupono Initiative; and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources; Department of Agriculture; and one individual offered comments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 5, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair		____________________________ JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair