STAND. COM. REP. NO.694

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 381

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 381, S.D. 1, 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 measure is to fund the successful claims filed with the Hawaiian home lands trust individual claims review panel (panel).

Your Committee finds that the panel was created in 1991 pursuant to chapter 674, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to investigate, and award monetary compensation, if necessary, to native Hawaiians for breach of trust claims related to the administration of the Hawaiian home lands trust. The claims involved Hawaiian homes wait list claims and other individual breach of trust claims, such as Hawaiian homes housing defect claims. This bill provides the appropriation necessary to fund the claims adjudicated by the panel.

Although your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the amount appropriated, your Committee intends to continue discussions on this matter.

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. 381, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 381, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair