STAND. COM. REP. NO. 917

                                   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 Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, 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 measure is to allow a Hawaiian homestead
lessee to transfer the lessee's leasehold interest to a spouse,
child, or grandchild who is at least one-quarter Hawaiian.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, a lessee of
Hawaiian home lands may designate a qualified relative to succeed
in the leasehold interest upon the death of the lessee.  The
measure would allow a lessee of Hawaiian home lands to transfer
homestead rights to a qualified relative while the lessee is
still living.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs 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
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.


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



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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