Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 1281 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt lands held by the High Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) from the definition of "public lands" under section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and consequently from the management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

HTDC submitted testimony supporting this measure. The Board of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments on this measure.

Your Committee finds that the purpose and mission of HTDC, as established under chapter 206M, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is to facilitate the growth and development of the commercial high technology industry in Hawaii. Its broad range of services, programs, and duties include developing and encouraging industrial parks as high technology innovation centers. Exempting lands held by HTDC from the management of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, would further support the purpose and mission of HTDC by providing HTDC the authority to acquire, own, lease, hold, clear, improve, and rehabilitate real property.

Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying the exempted land as that which the HTDC holds title for the Maui Research and Technology Center situate at Waiohuli-Keokea, Kula, Makawao, Maui, identified as tax map key: (2) 2-2-24:02, containing an area of 5.145 acres, more or less.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1281, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1281, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.