STAND. COM. REP. NO.  84-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2640

      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. 2640 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND USE COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to effectuate its title.

     H.B. No. 2640 was introduced as a short-form bill, which is sometimes referred to as a "vehicle" bill primarily used to introduce a bill containing only a general idea as to the purpose of the bill without specific details in the long form.

     Your Committee has amended the bill to provide the substantive contents of the bill in long form so that a public hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.

     The purpose of the amended measure is to require the Land Use Commission to reevaluate any decision granting a petition for boundary amendment and to consider whether the conditions for approving the petition continue to meet current legal requirements, if the landowner has not used, or made good faith efforts to use, the land within ten years of the petition approval.

     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 action to report out H.B. No. 2640, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Water & Land, for the purpose of holding a public hearing thereon, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2640, H.D. 1.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair