Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water and Land Use and Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 186 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the establishment of a comprehensive information system for inventorying and maintaining information about the lands of the public land trust. This bill appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for the Office of the Auditor to complete the public land trust information system. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is to match the appropriations on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Your Committees find that pursuant to Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, the Office of the Auditor hired a consultant to assist in developing an estimate of the cost necessary to establish the information system. The funding amount is expected to be available in the near future.

The Office of the Auditor supported the intent of this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land Use and Legislative Management that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 186 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.