Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred S.B. No. 1162, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enhance the ability of the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to dispose of public lands more cost effectively. This bill changes the public notice requirements for auctions, drawings, direct negotiation, exchanges, quitclaim, submerged and reclaimed lands, reservations, and easements from three successive weeks in both a statewide and county publication to:

(3) Be posted on the Internet.

DLNR and the Executive Assistant to the Governor and Special Advisor for Technology Development testified in support of this measure. Hawaii's Thousand Friends opposed this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its substance and inserting the provisions of H.B. No. 687, H.D. 1, a similar bill that passed Third Reading in the House earlier this session. As amended, this bill requires that public notice be given once statewide and once in the county where the land being disposed of is located.

According to the testimony, DLNR is already evaluating the Internet option. This is consistent with the Governor's mandate that all Executive Branch departments have their primary public services available on-line by July, 2002.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1162, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1162, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.