STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1141-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.R. No. 46
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.R. No. 46 entitled:

     "HOUSE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING FEDERAL RECOGNITION OF A
     HAWAIIAN NATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this resolution is to request the United
States Congress and the President to articulate and to implement
a federal policy of Native Hawaiian self-government with a
distinct, unique, and special trust relationship and to implement
reconciliation pursuant to Public Law 103-105.

     The Department of Hawaiian Homelands, the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs, the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of
Hawaii at Manoa, the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Ka Lahui
Hawaii Political Action Committee, and concerned individuals
testified in support of the measure.  Hawaiian Political Action
Council of Hawaii testified in opposition to the measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will help in the
effort to support the sovereign rights of Native Hawaiians and to
recognize the need to develop a government-to-government
relationship between a Hawaiian nation and the United States.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose
of H.R. No. 46, and recommends its adoption.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair