STAND. COM. REP. NO. 965-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1932

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1932, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Authorize the Department of Transportation to acquire, including by condemnation, any real, personal, or mixed property for certain immediate or future uses and own, hold, improve, rehabilitate, sell, assign, exchange, transfer, convey, lease, or dispose of any real, personal, or mixed property acquired;

(2) Amend the definition of "public lands" to exclude lands to which the Department of Transportation holds title; and

(3) Authorize the Department of Transportation to directly acquire any real property for its purposes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Signature Aviation. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1932, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair