STAND. COM. REP. NO.  374-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2634

      H.D. 1

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. 2634 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHAPTER 171, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the authorization granted to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to extend certain leases for hotels and resorts on public land to commercial and industrial properties.

Two individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and one individual submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.   The Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050; and

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity.

     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. 2634, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2634, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair