STAND. COM. REP. NO. 313-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2504
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2504 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 bill is to grant the chairman of the
Hawaiian Homes Commission authority to extend employment
contracts of individual employees beyond the six-year limitation
stated in section 202(b) of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act,
1920, as amended.

     Testimony in support of this bill was provided by the State
of Hawaii Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.  The State Council
of Hawaiian Homestead Associations testified in support of the
intent of this measure.

     Your Committee finds this bill to be consistent with the
practice in other State agencies with exempt employees, where the
determination whether services and positions are critical to
operations is made without the approval of the governor.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 2504 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.


 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair