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. 2751 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize a homestead lessee who is at least one-quarter Hawaiian 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 and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs testified in support of this measure.

Current law provides that qualified relatives to whom a lessee may transfer the lessee's leasehold interest include a husband, wife, child, or grandchild. Your Committee finds that extending transfer rights to siblings will foster family well-being and community harmony.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a severability clause; and

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. 2751, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2751, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.