STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1374

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 45
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 45 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE UNITED STATES
     GOVERNMENT TO RESTORE REDRESS FUNDS TO COMPENSATE
     INDIVIDUALS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY WHO WERE UNJUSTLY INTERNED
     DURING WORLD WAR II,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the United States
Government to restore redress funds to compensate individuals of
Japanese ancestry who were unjustly interned during World War II.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Japanese American Citizens League
of Honolulu, American Friends Service Committee, Hawaii Building
and Construction Trades Council AFL-CIO, Campaign for Justice:
Redress NOW for Japanese Latin Americans!, and four individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the funds appropriated by the
federal government for redress payments to individuals of
Japanese ancestry who were unjustly interned during World War II
have been fully expended.  Therefore, there are insufficient
funds to pay all of the remaining claims by Japanese Americans
and Japanese Latin Americans.  Your Committee believes that
additional federal funds need to be appropriated to satisfy these
remaining claims and to fulfill the intent of the Civil Liberties
Act of 1988.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent
and purpose of S.C.R. No. 45 and recommends its adoption.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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