Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 3084 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the appraisal process for state acquisitions of real property.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, the Hawaii Association of Realtors, the Hawaii Island Land Trust, the Maui Coastal Land Trust, the Nature Conservancy, and the Trust for Public Land.

The current law requires the State to obtain appraisals from three disinterested appraisers when the State acquires any private property. Your Committee finds that a more streamlined approach is warranted. This measure allows the State the flexibility to accept, under certain terms, existing appraisals instead of contracting for new appraisals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 3084, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3084, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.