STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3462

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 917

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 917, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require the City and County of Honolulu to transfer to the Department of Education 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.

Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a Proposed S.D. 1, which deletes the contents of the measure and inserts language to require the Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, on behalf of the Department of Education, to institute proceedings to acquire certain land owned by the Mililani Town Association by voluntary action or condemnation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the Proposed S.D. 1 from the Department of Education and Mililani Town Association.

Your Committee finds that the Mililani Town Association owns a parcel of land that fronts Mililani High School. Mililani High School desires to build an access ramp on this parcel that is compliant with the Americans for Disabilities Act to allow students, staff, family members, and the general public access to the school. Mililani Town Association is amenable to this construction and would like to avoid the potential for liability by transferring title to the parcel to the State. This measure provides a legal process for the friendly condemnation of the parcel by the State in a manner agreeable to all parties.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 917, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 917, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Education,

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MICHELLE N. KIDANI, Chair