STAND. COM. REP. NO. 940-04
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 Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2820 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL LANDS,"
beg 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.
Your Committees find that current law allows the transfer of multiple parcels but provides that all parcels must be geographically adjacent to one another. This restriction severely limits the availability of transferable lands and renders the nonagricultural parks program inoperable.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2820 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Agriculture,
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____________________________ FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair |
____________________________ EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair |