Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1793, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable the State to acquire additional agricultural lands by directing the Board of Land and Natural Resources to enter into negotiations for a land exchange involving private lands north of Wahiawa, Oahu.

ILWU Local 142 and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and an individual submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1793, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1793, H.D. 2.