STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2794

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2567

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2567 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN BENEFICIARIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to digitize its applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records through the creation of an interactive digital database software program, which shall be completed and available for use by July 1, 2023.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from one individual.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

Your Committee finds that although basic Department of Hawaiian Home Lands applicant waiting lists are readily available, access to more detailed information can require weeks of work. Accordingly, your Committee believes that steps must be taken to ensure that the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has access to and compiles relevant lease information in a more efficient manner.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an unspecified appropriation from general revenues for the creation of an interactive digital database software program of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' applicant, beneficiary, and lessee records;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2567, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2567, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair