Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, which was referred H.B. No. 450, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, 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.

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 to include funding in fiscal year 2005-2006 to provide grants for the following programs: Alu Like, Na Pua No`eau, and the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation. However, funding for these programs will not be provided as grants in fiscal year 2006-2007; instead, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs will have to expend the appropriated funds pursuant to chapter 103D or chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as appropriate.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 450, H.D. 2, S.D. 1 as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 450, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.