STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2379

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2212

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2212 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the congressional consent requirement for amendments made to the provision relating to community-based governance on Hawaiian home lands.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Association, Waianae Kai Homestead Community Association, and Papakolea Community Development Corporation.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.  

     Your Committees find that this measure will allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the homestead associations to act without the obstacle of a congressional gridlock in order to implement the partnerships originally encouraged and intended by the Legislature.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2212 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair