Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 528 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer certain Hawaii county lands to the State.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Mayor of the County of Hawaii (Mayor).

Act 97, Session Laws of Hawaii 1965 (Act 97), transferred the responsibility for functions that were deemed to be of statewide concern from the counties to the State. Among these functions were the planning, construction, improvement, and maintenance of public school facilities and grounds, and the transportation of school children. Prior to the passage of Act 97, the counties issued bonds to plan, construct, improve, and maintain public school facilities and grounds. Since these functions are now wholly the responsibility of the State, it is appropriate to begin transferring all remaining county lands and improvements under the Department of Education to the State.

Your Committees have amended this measure on the recommendation of the Mayor to add certain buildings and improvements constructed by the County of Hawaii on state land prior to an Executive Order in 1967, relating to the Department of Education. Your Committees agree that these transfers are appropriate.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Water, Land, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 528, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 528, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.