STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1602-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3121

      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. 3121, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require legislative approval of any exchange of public land for private land by majority vote of both houses of the Legislature.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 3121, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3121, 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