STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1058-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2843
                                     H.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. 2843 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands' authority to lease out improvements situated
on Hawaiian home lands, and to provide flexibility in the manner
in which the Department may dispose of Hawaiian home lands to a
native Hawaiian or to an organization or association controlled
by native Hawaiians.

     Testimony in support of this bill was provided by the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the State Council of
Hawaiian Homestead Associations.  Testimony in opposition to this
bill was provided by a concerned individual.

     Your Committee finds that express authority to enter into
leases for improvements on Hawaiian home lands may enhance the
Department's opportunities to lease office buildings, hangars,
warehouses and other facilities on properties transferred to the
Department as federal excess properties at Kalaeloa (Barbers
Point Naval Air Station).

     Your Committee further finds it beneficial to native
Hawaiian bidders to permit the Department to employ methods other
than a closed, sealed bidding process to negotiate disposition of

 
 
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lands to native Hawaiians or an organization or association
controlled by native Hawaiians, prior to negotiations with the
general public.

     Your Committee has amended this provision by rephrasing "in
accordance with chapter 171" to read "in accordance with the
procedures set forth in chapter 171" to avoid conflict with the
exclusion of Hawaiian home lands in the definition of "public
lands" in section 171-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     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. 2843, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
2843, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair