HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	332
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

requesting the DEPARTMENT of hawaiian home lands to revise its present policies on matters of SUCCESSORSHIP.

     WHEREAS, the present successorship, a minimum of twenty-five per cent blood quantum, is insufficient to assure the transfer of lessee rights to successors who are of less than twenty-five per cent Hawaiian blood; and

     WHEREAS, a significant number of intermarriages occur between qualified lessees and non-qualified spouses; and

     WHEREAS, the Hawaiian population's blood quantum reduces with every passing generation, and, in some families, three or four times in one lessee's lifetime; and

     WHEREAS, now is the time to reduce the required blood quantum for successors presently awaiting transfer; and

     WHEREAS, to preserve the transfer of lands subject to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands should make immediate changes to the current procedures for lessee successorship; now, therefore,

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands is requested to revise its present policies and procedures by lowering the blood quantum requirement to 12.5 per cent for eligible successors; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, and the members of Hawaii's congressional delegation.

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title: 

Hawaiian Home Lands; Successorship