STAND. COM. REP. NO. 781

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1146
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1146 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION
     ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow a Hawaiian homestead
lessee to transfer the lessee's interest to a spouse, child, or
grandchild who is at least one-quarter Hawaiian.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaiian Home Lands Act has
been amended to allow a lessee to pass on the lessee's interest
to a relative who is one-quarter Hawaiian upon the lessee's
death.  The proposed change would allow this to be done while the
lessee is still alive.  The amendments made by this bill will not
take effect until consent is obtained from the United States
government.

     Your Committee has amended the bill to make technical
nonsubstantive changes.

     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.
1146, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1146, S.D. 1.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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