Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 2112 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to subject any disposition of public lands by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Community Development Authority, or High Technology Development Corporation in fee simple, lease with option to purchase, or grant of easement in perpetuity to disapproval by the Legislature by a two-thirds vote of either the Senate or the House of Representative or by a majority of both.

In the public hearing notice of the meeting of the Committees, it was duly noted that a draft proposal of this measure was to be considered during the hearing and that the draft proposal was available for review by members of the Committees and the public. The draft measure provided for the prior approval by the Legislature of any dispositions in fee simple, lease with option to purchase, or easement in perpetuity by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Community Development Authority, or the High Technology Development Corporation.

The Board of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Community Development Authority, and Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., testified in opposition to this measure. The High Technology Development Corporation testified that it did not have the authority to dispose of public lands. Testimony in favor of this measure was received from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Sierra Club, and numerous individuals.

Your Committees amended this measure to provide that:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Legislative Management that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2112, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2112, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.