Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2750 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to broaden the use of the Native Hawaiian Rehabilitation Fund (NHRF) to allow the provision of NHRF supported programs and services to native Hawaiian families, Hawaiian homestead communities, and other organizations controlled by native Hawaiians.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL), the Hawaiian Caucus of the Twenty-first Legislature, and the State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations. Ka Lahui Hawaii and two private citizens testified in opposition to the measure.

Your Committee finds that the measure will enable DHHL to utilize its resources to assist a greater number of native Hawaiians while also providing ancillary benefits to the community-at-large.

Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical amendments for the purpose of clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2750, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2750, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.