STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1258

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1114
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1114, H.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION
     ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the transfer of a
homestead lessee's leasehold interest to a spouse, child, or
grandchild who is at least one-quarter Hawaiian.

     Your Committee finds that allowing the transfer of a
homestead lease to a spouse, child, or grandchild who is at least
one-fourth Hawaiian will assure that the leasehold will remain in
the lessee's family.  Your Committee recognizes that more and
more native Hawaiians are part Hawaiians because of the high rate
of intermarriage in Hawaii.  Yet it is important that leaseholds
remain as long as possible within the family that originally
leased the property.  A sense of place and a sense of belonging
is important to any family, as well as a sense and feeling of
continuity.  This measure will help promote those goals.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1114, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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