STAND. COM. REP. NO.  249-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2289

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2289 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the directive to amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, to accomplish the purposes of section 3 of Act 195, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, which recognized the Native Hawaiian people as the only indigenous, aboriginal, maoli people of Hawaii and established the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs provided testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2289 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair