STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2667

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2790

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2790 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the repeal date of the pilot project created by Act 187, Session Laws of Hawaii 2010, that enables the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to begin housing and other projects without having the full amount of the cost of the projects on hand at the beginning of the project.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly; Mokupuni O Oahu-Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly; Waianae Kai Homestead Community Association-Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly; and the Nanakuli Hawaiian Homestead Community Association-Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly.

Your Committee finds that extending the pilot project to June 30, 2015, will allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands the continued opportunity to build affordable homes for its beneficiaries.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to submit a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Sessions of 2013, 2014, and 2015 on the status of the pilot project.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2790, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2790, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair