Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2984, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund.

Your Committee on Conference finds that Act 314, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 1991, as amended, authorized the Department of Land and Natural Resources to negotiate long-term leases with displaced families from Kalapana on ceded lands in the Kikala-Keokea homestead area. Act 314 was enacted to assist those displaced by the continuing lava flows from Kilauea, which began in 1983 and led to the eventual destruction of Kalapana in 1991.

Your Committee on Conference further finds that pursuant to Act 144, SLH 2001, the Legislature established the infrastructure development fund for the construction of infrastructure and the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund to provide low-interest loans to Kikala-Keokea lessees for residential construction. This measure appropriates funds to the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund to allow housing construction to begin.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by inserting the amount of $200,000 to fund its purpose.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2984, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2984, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.