STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1538

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

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




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 990, H.D. 1,
entitled: 

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency
appropriation to fund the legal services provided to the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for individual claims review.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Attorney General.  The
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation submitted comments on the
measure.

     Your Committees find that funds budgeted for legal services
provided to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for legal
representation before the Hawaiian Home Lands Individual Claims
Review Panel will be depleted by the end of February 1999.  In
order to complete the resolution process mandated under chapter
674, Hawaii Revised Statutes, funding for the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands' legal representation must continue.


 
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     Your Committees have amended the measure by changing the
effective date of the measure from upon approval to July 1, 2010,
to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and
Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in
accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 990, H.D. 1, as
amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as H.B. No. 990, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be
placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and
                                   Means,



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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair           COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair



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ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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