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 S.B. No. 528, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to transfer from the County of Hawaii to the State, certain lands upon which public school facilities are situated and any improvements thereon.

The Department of Education (DOE) supported this bill. The Mayor of the County of Hawaii supported this bill with amendments. The Board of Land and Natural Resources opposed this bill.

Act 97, Session Laws of Hawaii 1965, transferred the responsibility for planning, construction, improvement, and maintenance of public school facilities to the State. Your Committee finds that it is an appropriate time to transfer all remaining county land and improvements under the operation of DOE to the State.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 528, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 528, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.