STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1118

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   S.B. No. 1530

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 1530, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to help maintain and improve hotel and resort infrastructure by authorizing the Board of Land and Natural Resources to extend the lease of public lands for hotel or resort use upon the approval of a proposed development agreement that the lessee or developer will make substantial improvements to the leased premises.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Hawaii Tourism Authority supported this bill.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs offered comments.

     After careful consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Removing specific references to the Banyan Drive area in Hilo;

     (2)  Deleting the definition of "hotel or resort"; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Tourism that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1530, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1530, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Tourism,

____________________________ TOM BROWER, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair