STAND. COM. REP. NO. 451-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2288

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2288, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer the parcel of land designated as TMK (1) 3-2-030-002-0000-000 to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Kupuna for the Mo‘opuna, and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the University of Hawai‘i and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that there is a large number of applicants seeking homesteads on Oahu where there is a land shortage. The transfer of land identified in this measure will enable the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to award homesteads to its Oahu applicants.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting language that stated that the transfer involved the real property located at 560 Makapuu Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2288, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2288, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair