Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2493 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to extend the transfer rights of a homestead lessee, who is at least one-quarter Hawaiian and received an interest in a tract of land through succession or transfer, to transfer the lessee's leasehold interest to a brother or sister who is at least one-quarter Hawaiian.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2493, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2493, H.D. 1.