STAND. COM. REP. NO.  890

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1330

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1330, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMON INTEREST AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a regulatory structure that allows for the creation of common interest agricultural communities, a form of nonresidential condominium property regime on agricultural lands, structured for farming operators, with allowable uses limited to agriculture and farming operations.

An individual supported this measure.  The Department of Agriculture opposed this measure.  The Office of Planning and Hawaii Farm Bureau provided comments.

     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. 1330, H.D. 1, 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