STAND. COM. REP. NO. 382

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 722

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 722 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to expand the scope of the comprehensive information system established pursuant to Act 54, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011 (Act 54), to inventory and maintain information about the lands of the public land trust described in section 5(f) of the Admission Act and article XII, section 4, of the Hawaii State Constitution to include public facilities, thereby creating a comprehensive asset management system for public lands and facilities.

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committees posted a proposed S.D. 1 to require the Department of Accounting and General Services, rather than the Department of Land and Natural Resources, as the appropriate agency to establish the inventory of public facilities.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Act 54 is intended to facilitate the establishment of a comprehensive information system to inventory and maintain information about the lands of the public land trust described in section 5(f) of the Admission Act and article XII, section 4, of the Hawaii State Constitution.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources has already collected a substantial amount of information about lands that are in the public land trust and established a database of information about these lands.  The focus of Act 54 is the further study or review of the trust status of those lands to which other state agencies hold title and the disposition of those lands.  This study or review enables the Department of Land and Natural Resources to verify the accuracy of or make amendments to the trust status of those lands as indicated in the existing database.

     Your Committees find that the inventory required to be taken and information to be maintained are important tools to assist the State to manage its assets.  However, insufficient information on underutilized public facilities exacerbates lost revenues for the State, so it is important that all state and county agencies work together to ensure that state facilities are also included in a comprehensive asset management system for public lands and facilities.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1 and further amending the measure by requiring state agencies to transfer programs and hardware associated with the inventory to the Department of Accounting and General Services.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 722, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 722, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing,

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair	____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair
	____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair