Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 760 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to survey and map all existing public access ways and shoreline areas.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Life of the Land, Office of the County Attorney, County of Kauai, and Hawaii Boaters Political Action Association testified in support of the bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaii Association of Realtors opposed the bill. The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii provided comments on the measure.

Your Committee finds that this bill will help the general public and private landowners whose property abuts the shoreline, by providing for an accurate identification of public access to rights-of-way to the shoreline, as well alert the State and counties to shoreline areas that may require protection, additional signage, or condemnation for adequate public access.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 760 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.