STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1152-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2747

      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 Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2747, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUBDIVISION DOCUMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Departments of Transportation, Hawaiian Home Lands, and Land and Natural Resources, which are otherwise exempt from county subdivision ordinances, to submit project maps, final orders of condemnation, and recorded deeds and title transfers to county real property assessment administrators.

The Hawaii State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, and Department of Budget and Fiscal Services of the City and County of Honolulu provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Transportation, Department of Finance of the County of Kauai, Real Property Tax Division of the County of Hawaii, and Real Property Assessment Division of the County of Maui provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2747, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Transportation.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair