STAND. COM. REP. NO. 821

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1635
                                        S.D. 2




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 S.B.
No. 1635, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to Public Land Trust,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reconvene the joint
legislative committee to study and make recommendations on
resolving issues related to the public lands trust, and to
increase the ceded land payments to the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs to $16,060,000.

     The bill also extends the progress report date and reporting
date for the joint committee from twenty days prior to the 1998
session to the 2000 session, and twenty days prior to the 199
session to the 2001 session, respectively.  The bill further
transfers the duties of performing the ceded lands inventory from
the Department of Land and Natural Resoruces to the Auditor, and
requests a progress report for the 2000 session and a final
report for the 2001 session.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by changing the amounts
appropriated to a unspecified amount to facilitate continuing
discussion on this matter.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1635, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1635, S.D. 2.

                                 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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