STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1013-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1932

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1932, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that the Legislature fulfills its responsibility under Article XII, section 1, of the State Constitution by appropriating funds to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) to reimburse DHHL for administrative and operating costs expensed out of DHHL special and trust funds for fiscal year 2016.

A Kauai County Councilmember, Kapolei Community Development Corporation, Ka Lahui Hawai‘i Political Action Committee, and several individuals provided testimony in support of the measure.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the preamble; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1932, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1932, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair