Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2477, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the authority of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to award grants, and to appropriate interim revenues.

The State Attorney General and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs testified in support of this measure. Ka Lahui Hawaii testified in support of the intent of this measure.

Your Committee finds it appropriate to make explicit the statutory authority of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to award grants.

Consistent with the recommendation of the Attorney General, your Committee has amended this measure by:

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 S.B. No. 2477, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2477, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.