Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 917, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure native Hawaiian representation on the Commission on Water Resource Management by allowing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to appoint one member of the nominating committee.

OHA testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported this measure with amendments.

Your Committees have amended this bill by changing the number of members on the nominating committee from four to five to reflect the amendments made by the previous legislative committee, which allowed OHA to appoint an additional member of the nominating committee instead of reducing the number of members appointed by the Governor.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 917, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 917, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.