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 Economic Development and Business Concerns, to which was referred H.B. No. 2448 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to exempt lands held by the High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) from being classified as public lands.

HTDC testified in support of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) submitted comments.

Your Committees recognize that public lands are to be managed and administered by DLNR unless exempted. This measure corrects an inconsistency within the Hawaii Revised Statutes to allow HTDC to acquire, own, lease, hold, clear, improve, and rehabilitate real, personal, or mixed property.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land Use and Economic Development and Business Concerns that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2448 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.