STAND. COM. REP. NO.  461-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2750

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2750 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create a Native Hawaiian Housing Task Force, administratively attached to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, to identify duplicative housing-related services among state agencies that serve Native Hawaiians to improve efficiency in the delivery of those services.

The Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Ho‘omana Pono, LLC submitted testimony in opposition.  An individual submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending its purpose section; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to December 24, 2088, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 2750, as amended herein, and

recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2750, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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KANIELA ING, Chair