STAND. COM. REP. NO.  133-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2300

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2300 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Require five percent of the State's annual share of the revenues from the public land trust to be annually appropriated to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; and

     (2)  Repeal obsolete language relating to the transfer of functions from the Hawaiian Homes Commission to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

The Kuakini Hawaiian Civic Club of Kona, Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association, Kewalo Hawaiian Homestead Community Association, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, Waianae Kai Homestead Association, Sovereign Mokupuni O Oahu, and three concerned individuals supported the measure.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands supported the intent of the measure.  The Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs offered comments on the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Providing for an unspecified dollar amount, instead of the percentage, of the State's annual share of the revenues from the public land trust to be annually appropriated to the Department of the Hawaiian Home Lands; and

     (2)  Protecting the revenues owed to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs under Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, from the operation of this measure.

     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. 2300, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2300, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources.

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

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair