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.C.R. No. 128 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands enter into a lease/purchase agreement for the construction of a new office facility on Hawaiian home lands in East Kapolei to be funded by the issuance of certificates of participation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL).

Your Committee finds that DHHL currently leases commercial office space in downtown Honolulu and that this lease will expire in early 2008. The move to Hawaiian home lands in East Kapolei will allow DHHL to better serve the large beneficiary population in the Nanakuli, Lualualei, Waianae, and Kapolei areas and will allow DHHL to have a home of its own.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity and style.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 128, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 128, S.D. 1.