Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1100 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that a majority of the Hawaiian Homes Commission be comprised of members with at least one-quarter native Hawaiian blood.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

Your Committee finds that existing law requires that at least four of the members of the Hawaiian Homes Commission have at least one-fourth Hawaiian blood. This requirement was established when the commission had only seven members. Subsequent amendments to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act increased the number of commissioners to nine.

Your Committee supports this measure, which will ensure that Hawaiians have a majority voice in the policy decisions of the executive board overseeing the administration of the Hawaiian home lands programs.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1100 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.