STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2142

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3003

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 3003 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to land.

     Prior to a hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language to establish the County of Niihau under the jurisdiction of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3003, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Water and Land, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3003, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land,

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair