STAND. COM. REP. NO. 239-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: H.B. No. 2113
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2113 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KULEANA LANDS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to prevent the disenfranchisement of native Hawaiians from their familial kuleana lands, by among other things, making the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) trustee of any unclaimed kuleana lands.
Pae 'Aina Communications, LLC, and OW Enterprises, LLP, testified in support of this bill. OHA supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Deleting the section that would have repealed the requirement that OHA be joined as a defendant in an action to quiet title to unclaimed kuleana land; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2113, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2113, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,
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____________________________ EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair |
____________________________ SCOTT K. SAIKI, Chair |
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