STAND. COM. REP. NO.  249-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2808

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. 2808 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KIKALA-KEOKEA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide the lessees of the Kikala-Keokea homestead an additional period of ten years to construct dwellings in order to comply with the terms of their long-term land leases with the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Na Ohana O Kalapana, Mokupuni O Oahu, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association, Waianae Kai Homestead Community Association, Kewalo Hawaiian Homestead Community Association, and many concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments on the 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. 2808 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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