HI HB1081

Requires at least one public meeting be held in the geographic region before designating public lands as an industrial park, conducted pursuant to Hawaii's open meetings law (Chapter 92).

Allows contiguous areas for industrial parks to include existing roadways that provide access to or within the park, expanding the definition beyond the previous five-acre minimum requirement.

Removes the requirement that private parties developing industrial parks must be selected through competitive procurement processes (sections 103D-302 or 103D-303), allowing negotiated selections.

Expands protections for persons occupying public lands under permits or leases when those lands are designated as industrial parks, allowing them to lease the same lands and includes those with month-to-month arrangements.

Broadens the definition of "dislocated lessee" to include lessees displaced from public lands due to mutual lease termination with the State, in addition to those displaced through eminent domain proceedings.