Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1659, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this bill is to extend the Department of Land and Natural Resources' (DLNR) authority to enter into lease agreements with noncommercial pier owners, and allow noncommercial pier owners more time to negotiate leases of state submerged lands or lands beneath tidal waters (submerged land lease). Specifically, this bill extends Act 261, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 2000, by two years to June 30, 2007.

Your Committee on Conference notes, that for purposes of determining the lease rent for the submerged land leases, DLNR is using 50 percent of the 2001 real property tax assessment of the fast land as the value of the submerged land to be leased. Procrastinating landowners desiring to enter into a submerged land lease with the State for noncommercial piers must be urged to act in a timely manner. Accordingly, your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1659, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1659, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.