CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO.42

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 498

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 498, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE NANAKULI HOMESTEAD CEMETERY,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the Hawaiian Home Trust Fund for the maintenance and upkeep of the Nanakuli Homestead Cemetery.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

(1) Changing the funding source from the Hawaiian Home Trust Fund to the general fund;

(2) Deleting references to the specific ethnic or religious areas of the cemetery to which moneys are to be allocated;

(3) Replacing the $1 appropriation with $76,020;

(4) Including a section that requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to report to the 2002 Legislature on the actions taken by the department to maintain and upkeep the Nanakuli Cemetery; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 498, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 498, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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JONATHAN CHUN, Co-Chair