Bill Text: HI SB627 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Lands; Hawaii Public Lands Development Corporation; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB627 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB627-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 195

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 627

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 627 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC LANDS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to create the Hawaii Public Lands Development Corporation to make optimal use of public lands for the economic, environmental, and social benefit of the people of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Meadow Gold Dairies.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

Your Committee finds that financial considerations should not undermine the fundamental purposes of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, which include the preservation and management of public lands.  The Department's resources are currently absorbed by its expansive regulatory and enforcement duties.  From a financial perspective, it is not feasible for the Department to devote its resources to land management and revenue raising projects.  Your Committee further finds that the Hawaii Public Lands Development Corporation proposed by this measure would focus on management of the public lands, including implementing public lands development projects, and develop and implement projects that would generate revenues for the management of the public lands.  The revenues would then be available to support the management of public lands, and the public lands development projects will preserve and maintain lands for the public.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date from upon approval to July 1, 2011, to coincide with the start of the fiscal year; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 627, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 627, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Housing,

 

		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair