STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1155-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2953

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2953, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE RESOURCES ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify the distribution of royalties received by the State from geothermal resources located on lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands by allocating 20 percent of royalties to the county in which the land is located and an unspecified percentage to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies provided testimony in opposition to this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General; Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and Indigenous Consultants, LLC provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by allocating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands 100 percent of the royalties received by the State from geothermal resources located on lands under the jurisdiction of the Department.

     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 S.B. No. 2953, S.D. 1, 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. 2953, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair