STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1178-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2820
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 S.B. No. 2820 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the transfer of agricultural land from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to the Department of Agriculture (DOA) by:
(1) Deleting the provision requiring that all transferred lands be geographically adjacent; and
(2) Amending section 166E-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for consistency with the rest of the chapter and to clarify that the term of the lease or rents of qualified and encumbered nonagricultural park lands transferred to DOA is not to be reduced over the remaining fixed term of the encumbrances.
DOA testified in support of this measure.
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 S.B. No. 2820 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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