STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2593

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2181
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2181 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND TRUST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to give the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs its pro rata share of ceded land revenues while a
comprehensive ceded land inventory is being completed.

     Since fiscal year 1997-1998, the Legislature has funded the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs with an interim revenue statute.
Until a ceded land inventory can be completed, the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs must be funded by statute in order for it to
perform its constitutionally-mandated responsibilities.  This
bill will provide funds at a specified level, to be credited
toward the amount that will ultimately be determined as the
State's fair share.  The State will make an additional payment if
the amount later found to be owing is greater than the amount
appropriated, and will receive a credit if the amount owing is
found to be less.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making the amount of
the appropriation blank for discussion purposes.

     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.
2181, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2181, S.D. 1.

                                 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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