STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2161

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3104

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3104 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, after beneficiary consultation and upon approval by the Hawaiian Homes Commission, to issue interim rules that shall be exempt from the public notice, public hearing, and gubernatorial approval requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Center for Hawaii Sovereignty Studies and one individual.

Your Committee finds that this measure will provide flexibility within the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands by allowing the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to create interim rules which shall be exempt from public notice, public hearings, and gubernatorial approval requirements in chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Interim rules shall be subject to approval by the Hawaiian Homes Commission and shall be effective for no more than eighteen months from the date an interim rule takes effect.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3104 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair