Bill Text: HI SB2378 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
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
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1159-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: S.B. No. 2378
S.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, 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:
(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 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 of Land and Natural Resources 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, the Agribusiness Development Corporation, and the Public Land Development Corporation.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources 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 Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,
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____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair |
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