STAND. COM. REP. NO.  862-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2338

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2338, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CREATIVE MEDIA INDUSTRY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources to lease public land for purposes of developing creative media production and post-production facilities by negotiation and without public auction.

 

     An individual supported this measure.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Exempting these leases from the appraisal requirements applicable to the sale or lease of public lands by public auction under section 171-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS);

 

     (2)  Deleting the requirement that the Department of Land and Natural Resources adopt rules pursuant to section 91, HRS, to facilitate the creative media industry leases; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2338, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2338, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair