Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 267 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to public lands.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that requires the governor or executive agency to provide reasonable, timely, and sufficient notice to the legislature whenever any action that is subject to legislative disapproval is taken on transactions involving public lands.

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. 267, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 267, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, for further consideration.