STAND. COM. REP. NO. ___________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 235
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
235, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support the concept of self-
determination by authorizing the election of the members of the
Hawaiian Homes Commission by Hawaiian voters.

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Waianae Kai Homestead
Association, the State Council of Hawaiian Homestead
Associations, the Waimanalo Hawaiian Homes Association, the
Hawaiian Political Action Council of Hawaii, the Island of Kauai
Ahupuaa, the Ahupua'a o' Oahu, and one individual testified in
support of this measure.  The Office of Elections, the Department
of Hawaiian Home Lands, and the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation
commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Replacing the appropriation with $1 for purposes of
          further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of style and clarity and to correct drafting
          errors.


 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
235, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 235, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair