STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1117-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2653

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2653, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL SHORELINE ENCROACHMENT EASEMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Board of Land and Natural Resources to provide qualified coastal landowners, who have privately owned structures situated on previously private land that has become submerged public land due to erosion and sea level rise, with special shoreline encroachment easements at values determined by the Board to enable these landowners to relocate these private structures landward of the shoreline setback line.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Board of Land and Natural Resources, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and a few concerned individuals provided testimony in support of this measure. Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee and one concerned individual provided testimony in opposition to this measure. The Office of Planning offered comments for 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. 2653, 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