STAND. COM. REP. NO. 930

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1095
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 1095, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REVIEW OF THE SALARIES OF
     THE TRUSTEES OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to re-start the four-year cycle
for the process of reviewing the salaries of the trustees of the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, as established in Act 358, Session
Laws of Hawaii 1993.

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Attorney General,
representatives of the Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association,
Inc., Waimea Hawaiian Civic Club, and the Aged Hawaiians
testified in support of the measure.  The Hawaiian Political
Action Council testified against the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the process originally envisioned
under Act 358, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993, was to have a salary
commission appointed by the Governor prior to November 30, 1996,
and in four-year increments thereafter.  By the fortieth
legislative day of the next regular legislative session, the
salary commission would submit its recommendations for any
trustee salary adjustments to the Legislature.  Inadvertently,
the salary commission was not appointed and the four-year review
cycle was never initiated.  This measure attempts to remedy the

 
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problem by changing the appointment date of the initial salary
commission from November 30, 1996, to November 30, 1998.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by clarifying that
the governor may appoint the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Salary
Review Commissioners upon the enactment of the measure and by
making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of
style and clarity.

     Your Committee believes that the amended measure will
provide for the establishment of the salary review process as
originally envisioned under Act 358, Session Laws of Hawaii 1993.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1095, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1095, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



                                   ______________________________
                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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