Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 447 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to make all necessary and appropriate disbursements of its money by issuing checks in its own name and by any other means.

OHA testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to ensure that OHA is empowered to make disbursements of its money by issuing checks in its own name and by any other means. This bill will symbolicly grant OHA greater autonomy over its affairs, as it prepares its constituency for the possibility of sovereignty in the coming years.

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 H.B. No. 447 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.