STAND. COM. REP. NO.  933-14

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 Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2747 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable the counties to maintain accurate property maps and records by requiring 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 Real Property Assessment Division of the County of Maui and a concerned individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Transportation, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

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

     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 S.B. No. 2747, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2747, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair