STAND. COM. REP. NO. 190

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 566
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 566 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE NANAKULI
     HOMESTEAD CEMETERY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the
maintenance and upkeep of the Nanakuli Homestead Cemetery.

     Your Committee received no testimony on this measure.  Your
Committee finds that the Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead has a
cemetery within its boundaries that is badly in need of
restorative work.  The deterioration of the cemetery has been a
major sore point with the residents of the community.  The
Nanakuli community has taken it upon itself to maintain the site.
Unfortunately, unlike commercial cemeteries which have built in
funding sources for maintenance and preservation of the grounds,
the Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Cemetery does not.  With only
limited financial support from the Department of Hawaiian Home
Lands over the years, the Nanakuli community has done its best to
stop the degradation, to give the kupuna a proper resting place.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 566 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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