STAND. COM. REP. NO. 191

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 569
                                        




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. 569 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION
     ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to enable the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands to hire private legal counsel.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, the State Council of Hawaiian
Homestead Associations, the Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders'
Association, Inc., and a spokesperson for the Aged Hawaiians.

     Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the Attorney General, and the
Kawaihae Hawaiian Homes Community Association.

     Your Committee finds that enabling the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands to retain its own private legal counsel would
help resolve conflict of interest issues when the Department's
interests differ from that of the Administration.

     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. 569 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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