STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1462

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 277

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 277, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the Special Land and Development Fund to finance priority projects of the Department of Land and Natural Resources including an industrial and business park on Maui, transit station development near the University of Hawaii West Oahu campus, and the Hawaii District land office.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Planning, and Hawaii Interagency Council for Transit-Oriented Development.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to a blank amount; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2049.

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 intent and purpose of S.B. No. 277, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 277, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair