STAND. COM. REP. NO. 180

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 695
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 695 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LAND USE COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require that one of the at-
large members of the Land Use Commission be a representative of
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. 

     Your Committee received testimony as follows:

     1.   Office of Hawaiian Affairs, in support; and 

     2.   Office of Planning, Land Use Commission, and University
          of Hawaii Environmental Center offering comment.  

     Your Committee finds that representation from the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs on the Land Use Commission will provide the
commission with a new perspective.  

     Your Committee revised the bill by:  

     1.   Providing that the member of the Land Use Commission
          representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs be non-
          voting; and 

     2.   Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of style and clarity.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 695, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second

 
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Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 695, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair