Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water and Land Use and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2018 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to allow tenants of state agricultural lands within five years of lease expiration to petition the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to place an advertisement for auction to determine whether there are other persons interested in bidding for a lease on the property. If no one responds, DLNR shall negotiate a new lease with the existing tenant. The existing tenant, if outbid by another person, shall be compensated for the residual value of any improvements made by the tenant.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau and the Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference testified in support of the measure. The Board of Land and Natural Resources opposed the bill.

Your Committees have amended the bill by clarifying that:

Your Committees have also made technical, non-substantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land Use and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2018, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2018, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.