STAND. COM. REP. NO.  257-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2236

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2236 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDOWNERS' LIABILITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide government landowners with liability protections afforded to private landowners by expanding the limited liability protections given to landowners who directly or indirectly invite or permit persons to use their property for recreational purposes to government owned lands.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Hawaii Rifle Association testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Association for Justice testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2236 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

 

 

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair