Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2554 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the Board of Land and Natural Resources to lease, by direct negotiation and without recourse to public auction, state submerged lands or lands beneath tidal waters for private noncommercial piers.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources and YWCA of Oahu submitted testimony in support of this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2554 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.