STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1622-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3065

      S.D. 1

      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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3065, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND EXCHANGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Budget and Finance to investigate and, if appropriate, execute an exchange of existing state land for certain parcels of land currently owned by Dole Food Company, Inc., that contain important watershed, forest reserve, and agricultural land.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau; Wahiawa Community and Business Association; Sugarland Growers, Inc.; and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of Agriculture, and the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii offered comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3065, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3065, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair