Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 625 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require that a majority of the Hawaiian Homes Commission (Commission) be comprised of members with at least one-fourth Hawaiian blood.

The State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations testified in support of this measure. The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands commented on the measure.

Presently, four of the nine members of the Commission are required to have at least one-fourth Hawaiian blood. Your Committee finds that this bill is necessary to ensure that Hawaiians have a majority voice in the policy decisions of the Commission.

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 H.B. No. 625 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.