STAND. COM. REP. NO. 828

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 939

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 939, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Hawaiian home lands community development fund, into which shall be deposited a percentage of all revenues from commercial developments on Hawaiian home lands.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Hui Kakooaina Hoopulapula and Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to the service of native Hawaiians.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands submitted comments in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that the percentage of the revenues to be deposited into this community development fund from revenues derived from commercial developments on Hawaiian home lands shall be determined by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, following consultation with Hawaiian home lands beneficiaries, and shall be expended for community and cultural programs in Hawaiian homestead communities, only after consultation with Hawaiian home lands beneficiaries.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050 to allow further discussion on this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 939, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 939, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair