STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2828

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2504
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Labor and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2504
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION
     ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer the
responsibility of authorizing Department of Hawaiian Home Lands'
employment contracts that retain the services of contracted
employees beyond the statutory limit of six years from the
Governor to the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.  The Kawaihae Hawaiian Homes
Community Association testified in opposition to the measure.

     Your Committees find that transferring the authority to
approve employment contract extensions for persons whose
expertise are deemed vital to the success of the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands makes good managerial sense.  Implementation
of the measure would expedite the contract negotiation and
employment processes of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and Labor and
Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2504 and

 
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recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and Labor and
                                   Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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