STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2160

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3105

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. 3105 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADOPTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow an adopted individual to benefit both by relationship through a natural parent and through an adoptive parent in a disposition or other designation as provided for in accordance with the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, or administrative rules.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the effect of adoption as provided for under state law impacts the ability for an adopted individual or the individual's natural family to succeed to a homestead lease or application on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands applicant waiting list. The purpose of this measure is to rectify the situation by allowing an adopted individual to benefit both by relationship through a natural parent and through an adoptive parent while also allowing the adopted individual and member of the individual's natural family to continue to have the same familial relationship.

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. 3105 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