HB186 CD1

Report Title:

Ceded Land Comprehensive Inventory System; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to facilitate the establishment of a comprehensive information system for inventorying and maintaining information about the lands of the public land trust. Extends the lapsing date of funds appropriated in Act 125, SLH 2000. Authorizes OHA to determine whether funds will be sufficient to produce a meaningful work product before any funds are expended. (HB186 CD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	186
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. During the 2000 legislative session, the legislature passed Act 125, the purpose of which was to facilitate the establishment of a comprehensive information system (system) for inventorying and maintaining information about the lands of the public land trust described in section 5(f) of the Admission Act and article XII, section 4, of the State Constitution. In accordance with section 5(a) of Act 125, the auditor is to report to the legislature the system's progress toward completion as well as any legislation the auditor deems necessary to facilitate the expeditious completion of the system. The auditor has estimated that approximately $18,500,000 is necessary to complete the system. Although such state funding is not currently available to finance the entire cost, the legislature is committed to funding this undertaking at a level that will ensure meaningful progress towards the completion of the system.

The purpose of this Act is to:

(1) Extend the lapsing date of funds appropriated in Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, to June 30, 2002;

(2) Appropriate an additional $100,000 for fiscal year 2001-2002; and

(3) Provide the office of Hawaiian affairs with the flexibility to match the State's contribution at a level greater than a dollar-for-dollar basis.

SECTION 2. Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, is amended by amending section 6 to read as follows:

"SECTION 6. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $250,000[,] or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001 to be expended by the auditor for the purposes of this Act; provided that [no]:

(1) No funds appropriated shall be expended unless separately matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis and paid to the auditor by the office of Hawaiian affairs[.]; and

(2) Any unexpended or unencumbered funds at the close of fiscal year 2000-2001 may be expended or encumbered during fiscal year 2001-2002, and shall not lapse until June 30, 2002.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the auditor for the purposes of this Act."

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $100,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002 to carry out the purposes of Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000; provided that no funds appropriated shall be expended unless separately matched in an amount not less than a dollar-for-dollar basis and paid to the auditor by the office of Hawaiian affairs.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the auditor for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2001; provided that section 3 shall take effect on July 1, 2001.