STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2987

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 3363

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3363, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' waitlist for any residential or commercial agricultural tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an offer for a tract; provided that the successor shall be at least 1/32 Hawaiian.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Hoʻomana Pono, LLC and one individual.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the population of eligible native Hawaiian beneficiaries of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands continues to decline, while the number of native Hawaiians on the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' waitlist continues to grow.  This measure assists the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' mission to develop and deliver land to native Hawaiians by recognizing the importance of succession rights of native Hawaiian beneficiaries.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of April 14, 2112, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3363, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3363, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair