STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1025-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2783

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2783 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC TRUST LANDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to effectively and responsibly meet the State's constitutional obligation to give effect to the right of native Hawaiians to benefit from the ceded lands trust by conveying certain public lands in Kakaako, Oahu, to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, with respect to their share of the income and proceeds from the public land trust lands from November 7, 1978, to June 30, 2012.

The Governor, Department of the Attorney General, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Oahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Ko‘olaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club, ALU LIKE, Inc., and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2783 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair