STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1370-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 351

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 351, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AHA MOKU ADVISORY COMMITTEE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to include expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee in the Department's annual budget request and to authorize use of the Special Land and Development Fund for expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee. This measure also appropriates general fund revenues for expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee and the annual Puwalu event.

The Aha Moku Advisory Committee, Waianae Hawaiian Civic Club, Native Hawaiian Organization Charity, Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, Ocean Tourism Coalition, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Hawaiian Affairs Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, Kai Palaoa, Ko‘olaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club, Ko‘olau Foundation, and many concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Ka‘aha Kiole o Moloka‘i commented on this measure.

Your Committees note that at the public hearing on this measure, there were discussions that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs may be the appropriate source of the appropriation, since the funding is intended to be used to improve the well-being of Native Hawaiians.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation source to an unspecified source; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2058.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 351, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 351, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ KANIELA ING, Chair