Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 450, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the biennial budget of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Alu Like, Inc., and nineteen individuals.

Your Committee finds that this measure appropriates necessary funds for the operation and administration of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs as well as outreach programs funded by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting moneys for a capital improvement project to plan, design, and construct an Office of Hawaiian Affairs building and Hawaiian community center.

Your Committee, in response to a letter from the Attorney General, has amended this measure to require the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to expend appropriated funds pursuant to Chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for legal services involving native Hawaiian rights and land title projects. With respect to the two remaining programs, Alu Like and Na Pua No`eau, your Committee defers to the Committee on Ways and Means as to whether these two entities are also subject to the Procurement Code.

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 H.B. No. 450, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 450, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.