STAND. COM. REP. NO. 515________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 990
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 990 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR
     LEGAL SERVICES FOR DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS
     INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS REVIEW.,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide an emergency
appropriation to fund personnel costs for the Individual Claims
Unit for the remaining four-month period of fiscal year 1998-99.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the
Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Hawaiian
Home Lands.  Comments were also received from the Waimea Hawaiian
Homesteaders' Association.

     Your Committee finds that continued legal services are vital
to the effective operation of the Hawaiian Home Lands Individual
Claims Unit.

     Your Committee has amended the bill making technical and
non-substantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 990, as amended herein, and recommends that

 
 
 
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it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
990, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair