STAND. COM. REP. NO.  222

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1225

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1225 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BINGO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to afford native Hawaiians a unique and exclusive source of revenue by:

(1)  Authorizing bingo to be conducted by one authorized licensee at one site on Hawaiian Home lands; and

(2)  Establishing the Hawaii Bingo Commission within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to regulate bingo within the State, including licensing, taxation, criminal sanctions, and proper conduct and methods for bingo.

     Kanaka Council Moku o Keawe, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, and one individual testified in support of this bill.  Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and another individual supported the intent of this measure.  The Honolulu Police Department, Christian Voice of Hawaii, League of Women Voters, United Methodist Church, Ahahui Ka‘iulani, and a concerned individual opposed this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1225 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair