STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2596

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2736
                                        S.D. 2




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. 2736, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KIKALA-KEOKEA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for infrastructural
improvements in the Kikala-Keokea region of the island of Hawaii
for persons of Hawaiian ancestry who were displaced by lava
flows.

     Your Committee finds that residents of Hawaiian ancestry
dispossessed or displaced from their homes in Kalapana as a
result of the lava flows should be allowed to live in the Kikala-
Keokea homestead area with the necessary infrastructure to make
the area habitable.  It would be unreasonable to allow these
residents to take on a long term lease from the Department of
Land and Natural Resources without providing roads, utilities,
and other important additions that would make their homes
livable.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the
effective date to July 1, 2999, for purposes of continuing
discussion, changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount,
and by making technical nonsubstantive changes.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2736, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2736,
S.D. 2.

                                 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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