STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 812

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1212

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1212, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND EXCHANGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to facilitate exchanges of public land for private land by changing the sequence of the disposition process. Specifically, this bill:

(1) Establishes that any exchange of public land for private land shall be subject to disapproval by the Legislature following the date of the Board of Land and Natural Resources' (Board) approval in principle of the exchange; and

(2) Clarifies that the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) shall submit to the Legislature a resolution for review of action on any exchange to be consummated by the Board wherein exchange deeds will be executed by the parties.

DLNR supported 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. 1212, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair