STAND. COM. REP. NO. 46

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 699
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 699 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE RESIDENTS
     OF MAUNALAHA SUBDIVISION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Land and Natural Resources for infrastructure
improvements to land leased to Maunalaha Valley residents.  

     Your Committee received testimony as follows:

     1.   Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Habitat for Humanity, and
          one private citizen, in support; and 

     2.   Department of Land and Natural Resources, in
          opposition.  

     Your Committee finds that many families of Hawaiian ancestry
living in the Maunalaha region of Makiki Heights have been living
in the area for a very long time, some since the Great Mahele.
The land is owned by the state and leased to the residents, who
live in substandard homes, some in tents.  They cannot qualify
for loans because of the substandard infrastructure and their
their non-ownership of the property, and thus cannot upgrade or
rebuild their homes. 

     Your Committee revised the bill by:  

     1.   Changing the appropriation amount to $2 for the purpose
          of continuing discussion of the bill; and 


 
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     2.   Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of style and clarity.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 699, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 699, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair