STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3490

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.C.R. No. 27
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred H.C.R. No. 27 entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE CENTENNIAL OF
     THE ORGANIC ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to commemorate the centennial
anniversary of the passage of the Organic Act.

     The measure also encourages the members of the House of
Representatives and the Senate of the Twentieth Legislature of
the State of Hawaii and the President and Congress of the United
States of America to gather with the Native Hawaiian community at
Iolani Palace on April 30, 2000, to celebrate the occasion.

     Your Committee finds that the measure will serve as a
reminder to the United States Congress of its involvement in the
transformation of the Kingdom of Hawaii through the enactment of
the Organic Act and the subsequent emergence of Hawaii as a
state.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by amending the title
to better reflect its contents.

     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 concurs with the intent and

 
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purpose of H.C.R. No. 27, as amended herein, and recommends its
adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 27, S.D. 1.

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



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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