Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1453 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to amend the definition of "lot," "houselot," "residential lot," and "residential houselot" as it pertains to residential leaseholds by:

Kamehameha Schools, Small Landowners Association of Hawaii, and Small Landowners of Oahu submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill is in accord with the intent of chapter 516, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to residential leaseholds. Specifically, your Committee believes that mandatory leasehold conversion should not be applicable to agricultural lots, and this bill will clarify the law to ensure it is not applied in that manner.

Your Committee has amended this bill by restoring the original lot size of two acres or less.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1453, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1453, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Human Services and Housing.