Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2421, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit claims to kuleana lands based on adverse possession.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and four individuals.

Your Committee finds that complex historical events have put kuleana lands at risk of inappropriate claims based on adverse possession. This measure will prohibit the use of adverse possession for any quiet title claim on kuleana lands.

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 S.B. No. 2421, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.