STAND. COM. REP. NO. 87

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 918

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 Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Lower & Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 918 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the maximum allowable lease term for public school lands under the Public School Lands Pilot Program established pursuant to Act 155, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, from fifty-five years to ninety-nine years.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050 to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs and Lower & Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 918, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 918, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair