STAND. COM. REP. NO.  19-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2046

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2046 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to;

(1)  Authorize the Adjutant General to have charge of all state property leased to the United States Army; and

(2)  Transfer such lands to the Department of Defense by June 30, 2017.

The Sierra Club of Hawaii opposed this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2046 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Water & Land.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair