STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3056

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 2

       S.D. 1

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 Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 2 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE'S FULL COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 5 OF ACT 178, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2006,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Governor to direct:

     (1)  The Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to provide an accounting of all receipts from lands described in section 5(f) of the Admission Act as required by section 5 of Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006 (Act 178); and

     (2)  All state departments to comply fully with section 5 of Act 178.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Your Committees find that Act 178 was enacted to ensure full disclosure of all revenues generated on public trust land and to promote accountability of the state agencies charged with utilizing and managing our public land trust resources.  The reporting requirement provides a base of information to the Legislature so that the State may fulfill its fiduciary obligation to Native Hawaiians and the citizens of Hawaii fully and accurately.  Some of the agencies charged with managing public trust lands have failed to provide consistent and full accounting of the revenues generated from public trust land.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 2, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, and Housing,

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair