STAND. COM. REP. NO.  131

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2019

 

RE:   H.B. No. 917

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Lower & Higher Education and Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 917 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Require the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the Department of Education (Department) fee simple title to the property on which the Department's Student Transportation Service Office on Young Street is located; and

 

(2)  Appropriate funds as a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu to prepare, execute, and record the quitclaim deeds required to convey to the Department the property on which the Department's Student Transportation Service Office on Young Street is located.

 

     The Department of Education, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii supported this measure.

 


     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Lower & Higher Education and Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 917, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 917, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Lower & Higher Education and Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

 

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair