STAND. COM. REP. NO. 250

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 439

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 439 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to effectuate its title.

H.B. No. 439 was introduced as a short-form bill, which is sometimes referred to as a "vehicle" bill primarily used to introduce a bill containing only a general idea as to the purpose of the bill without specific details in the long form.

Your Committee has amended the bill to provide the substantive contents of the bill in long form so that a public hearing may be properly held on its substantive contents.

The purpose of this measure as amended by your Committee is to exempt lands set aside by the Governor for the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation from classification as public lands subject to management by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee received no testimony on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the action to report out H.B. No. 439, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs, for the purpose of holding a public hearing thereon, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 439, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair