STAND. COM. REP. NO.1382

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1026

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1026, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KIKALA-KEOKEA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funds for the development of infrastructure to benefit residents of the Kikala-Keokea homestead area on the island of Hawaii.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of the intent of this measure from the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that there is an immediate need to assist persons of Hawaiian ancestry of the Kikala-Keokea subdivision, including those who were Kalapana residents who were displaced from their homes as a result of volcanic eruptions, to enable them to perpetuate their way of life and cultural traditions.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its contents and inserting the substance of S.B. No. 105, S.D. 1. As so amended, the purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Transfer funds that were previously appropriated for a low-interest loan program under Act 242, Session Laws of Hawaii 1991, from the former Housing Finance and Development Corporation's (now Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii) housing finance revolving fund to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the development of infrastructure, including water infrastructure at the Kikala-Keokea homestead area;

(2) Amend Act 242 to establish a new infrastructure development fund to be administered by the department for the development of infrastructure, including water infrastructure, at Kikala-Keokea. Appropriations from this fund are to be matched by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs on a dollar-for-dollar basis, so that the leases can be honored and the community reestablished. Your Committee has amended the section establishing this fund to provide for the deposit into that fund of funds appropriated and moneys received or collected by the Department of Land and Natural Resources "for the purposes of this Act";

(3) Provide that all unexpended or unencumbered moneys remaining in the infrastructure development fund be transferred to the credit of the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund, which is created to provide low interest loans for home construction for Kikala-Keokea leaseholders who have been denied loans from traditional financial institutions, and which is to be administered by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii; and

(4) Appropriate funds out of the infrastructure development fund for fiscal year 2001-2002 and the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund for fiscal year 2002-2003.

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 H.B. No. 1026, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1026, H.D. 1, 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