STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1303-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2477
                                     S.D. 1




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 S.B. No. 2477, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE OFFICE OF
     HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to specify that the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) trustee candidates must be of Hawaiian
descent.

     The Department of the Attorney General and OHA testified in
support of the measure.  The Hawaiian Political Action Council of
Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.  Concerned
individuals provided comments.

     Your Committee finds that reserving trustee candidacy to
those of Hawaiian decent is consistent with the Hawaii State
Constitution, and is in the best interest of the beneficiaries of
OHA's trust.

     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 is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2477, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.


 
 
 
 
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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