STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1318-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2386

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2386, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN ROLL COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1)  Require the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission to be responsible for receiving and maintaining verification documents from individuals seeking to be included in the roll of qualified Native Hawaiians;

(2)  Require verification documents to be kept confidential; and

(3)  Prohibit the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission from publishing or releasing any verification documents of any qualified Native Hawaiian on the roll.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Waiehu Kou IV Homestead Association; Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly (SCHHA); Kewalo Hawaiian Homestead Community Association, SCHHA; Waianae Kai Homestead Community Association, SCHHA; and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  Several individuals testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by providing that notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the verification documents of individuals seeking to be included on the roll of qualified Native Hawaiians must remain confidential.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2386, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2386, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair