STAND. COM. REP. 1473
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1156
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1156, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to enable the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to identify and locate persons for whose benefit its programs and projects are intended by:
(1) Requiring OHA to create a registry of all persons of Hawaiian ancestry, regardless of place of residence; and
(2) Appropriating funds for this purpose.
OHA testified in support of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Removing the appropriation provision; and
(2) Removing the portion of the effective date that provided that the appropriation section take effect on July 1, 2003.
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 S.B. No. 1156, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1156, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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