STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1009-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3121

      S.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. 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 commented on this measure.  

     Your Committee notes this measure's defective effective date, which facilitate the ongoing discussion regarding this measure.

     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. 3121, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair