STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2807

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3011

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3011, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer three parcels of land, located in Kunia, Oahu, to the Agribusiness Development Corporation.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted written comments on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Agribusiness Development Corporation was created to convert former plantation water systems and lands to properties for diversified agriculture.  Transfer of these three parcels of land to the Agribusiness Development Corporation will help ensure that arable public lands within Kunia's agricultural land use district will be used for agricultural purposes.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Correcting the tax map key numbers to accurately reference the three parcels; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3011, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3011, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair