STAND. COM. REP. NO.  630-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2561

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2561 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enable the timely and efficient sale and gift of state-owned lands by limiting legislative oversight on these transactions to ceded lands only.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Department of the Attorney General, Department of Agriculture, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and University of Hawaii System testified in support of this bill. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2561 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair