STAND. COM. REP. 626
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 192
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 Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 192, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ACCRETED LANDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Include "accreted lands" in the definition of "public lands;" and
(2) Provide that accreted lands shall be state lands, except that private property owners may regain title to eroded land restored by accretion.
Life of the Land and numerous concerned citizens testified in support of this measure. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the intent of this measure. The Office of Environmental Quality Control and Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.
Your Committee finds it crucial to protect public beaches from being transformed into private lands through the filing of accretion claims, except to restore to private ownership portions of private land removed by erosion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 192, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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