STAND. COM. REP. NO. 277

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 567
                                        




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. 567 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT
     OF DAMAGES FOR HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for
payment of monetary damages to claimants whose claims have been
adjudicated by the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust Individual Claims
Review Panel.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust Individual Claims Review
Panel, Kawaihae Hawaiian Homes Community Association, Native
Hawaiian Legal Corporation, State Council of Hawaiian Homestead
Associations, Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association, Inc.,
Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club, Aged Hawaiians, Ahupua'a O Moloka'i,
and two individuals.

     The State Attorney General and Department of Hawaiian Home
Lands submitted testimony requesting deferral of this measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust
Individual Claims Review Panel ("Review Panel") adjudicates
individual claims by native Hawaiian beneficiaries for breaches
of the Hawaiian Home Lands trust.  The Review Panel has reviewed
and adjudicated 509 cases brought by 387 claimants in 1997 and
1998 and, pursuant to the recommendations of the Review Panel,

 
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your Committee finds that $16,434,675.75 in damages should be
paid to the claimants.

     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. 567 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   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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