STAND. COM. REP. NO.  970-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2407

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2407, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Transportation to negotiate the disposition of lands under its control and jurisdiction without the approval of the Board of Land and Natural Resources and subject to certain conditions, when the disposition encourages competition within the aeronautical, airport-related, maritime, and maritime-related operations.

The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.  Ka Lāhui Hawai‘i Political Action Committee opposed this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.

     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 H.B. No. 2407, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair