STAND. COM. REP. NO.  47-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   H.B. No. 2358

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2358 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the jurisdiction over Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) titled lands by exempting these lands from the definition of public lands under the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  

The HPHA and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii supported this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs provided comments.

     Your Committee finds that HPHA titled lands were previously exempt when held under HPHA's predecessor agencies, the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) and the Hawaii Housing Authority.  When HCDCH was bifurcated into two agencies by Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, an exemption for HPHA titled lands from the definition of public lands was inadvertently omitted.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2358, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2358, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Water & Land.

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

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TOM BROWER, Chair