STAND. COM. REP. 978

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 381

S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 381, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE PAYMENT OF DAMAGES FOR HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an unspecified amount from the general fund for the payment of monetary damages to claimants whose claims were adjudicated by the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust Individual Claims Review Panel.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Davis, Levin, Livingston & Grande attorneys, Hawaiian Political Action Council of Hawaii, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands submitted testimony supporting the intent of this bill.

The legitimacy of pure wait list claims was a subject of committee discussion and concern. Your Committee chair will continue to address this controversial question with the House Finance Committee.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 381, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair