STAND. COM. REP. NO.119
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 378
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 378 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ACCRETED LANDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to include accreted lands in the definition of state public lands, although allowing a private property owner to file an accretion claim to regain title to the owner's eroded land that has been restored by accretion.
Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Life of the Land, the Sierra Club, a coastal geologist, and a concerned citizen. The Board of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments on the measure.
Your Committee finds that this measure will stop the unlawful taking of public beach land under the guise of fulfilling a nonexistent littoral right supposedly belonging to shorefront property owners. The measure will help protect Hawaii's public lands and fragile beaches.
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. 378 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,
____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair |
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