Bill Text: HI SB693 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To The Transfer Of Non-agricultural Park Lands.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-12-10 - Carried over to 2022 Regular Session. [SB693 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB693-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE TRANSFER OF NON-AGRICULTURAL PARK LANDS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Act 90, Session Laws
of Hawaii 2003, was enacted to transfer certain non-agricultural park lands from
the department of land and natural resources to the department of agriculture. While three hundred parcels consisting of approximately
nineteen thousand acres have been transferred over the past seventeen years, many
parcels have not been transferred.
SECTION 2. Section 166E-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§166E-3 Transfer and management of non-agricultural park lands and related facilities to the department of agriculture. (a) Upon mutual agreement and approval of the board and the board of land and natural resources:
(1) The department may accept the transfer of and manage certain qualifying non-agricultural park lands; and
(2) Certain assets, including position counts, related to the management of existing encumbered and unencumbered non-agricultural park lands and related facilities shall be transferred to the department.
(b) The department shall administer a program to
manage the transferred non-agricultural park lands under rules adopted by the
board pursuant to chapter 91. The program
and its rules shall be separate and distinct from the agricultural park program
and its rules. Non-agricultural park
lands are not the same as, and shall not be selected or managed as [are],
lands under agricultural park leases. Prior
to offering a lease, the department shall inquire with the department of land and
natural resources regarding any easements required by the department of land and
natural resources to access landlocked forest reserves or
other assets of the department of land and natural resources on the lands subject
to the lease. Notwithstanding any
other law to the contrary, the program shall include the following conditions
pertaining to encumbered non-agricultural park lands:
(1) The lessee or permittee shall perform in full compliance with the existing lease or permit;
(2) The lessee or permittee shall not be in arrears in the payment of taxes, rents, or other obligations owed to the State or any county;
(3) The lessee's or permittee's agricultural operation shall be economically viable as specified by the board; and
(4) No encumbered or unencumbered non-agricultural park lands with soils classified by the land study bureau's detailed land classification as overall (master) productivity rating class A or B shall be transferred for the use or development of golf courses, golf driving ranges, and country clubs.
The transfer of non-agricultural park lands shall be
done [in a manner to be determined by the board of agriculture,] pursuant
to this section.
(c) For any encumbered or unencumbered non-agricultural park lands transferred to the department that are not being utilized or required for the public purpose stated, the order setting aside the lands shall be withdrawn and the lands shall be returned to the department of land and natural resources.
(d) No later than one year after the effective date
of this Act, the department and the department of land and natural resources shall
meet and identify by mutual agreement the non-agricultural park lands under the
jurisdiction of the department of land and natural resources that are not in use
for the public purpose for which it has been leased, should be rezoned as lands
in the conservation district, and should remain under the jurisdiction of the department
of land and natural resources. All other
non-agricultural park lands currently leased and being utilized for the agricultural
public purpose as defined by their current lease agreements shall be transferred
to the department.
(e) All non-agricultural park lands under the jurisdiction
of the department of land and natural resources and not identified pursuant to subsection
(d) shall be placed under the jurisdiction of the department no later than December
31, 2023.
(f) Beginning in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, and no less than every fifth fiscal year thereafter, the department and the department of land and natural resources shall meet and determine additional lands that may be appropriate for transfer from the department of land and natural resources to the department for the purposes of this chapter."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Department of Agriculture; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Non-agricultural Park Lands; Pastoral Lands; Task Force
Description:
The summary description
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
