STAND. COM. REP. NO.390

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 626

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 626 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 authorize the department of Hawaiian home lands ("department") to require that homestead lessees use private financing to reimburse the department for any advances made by the department. This bill applies only in those cases where the lessee obtained his or her lease interest as a result of any of the following:

(1) The prior lessee died leaving no qualified successor;

(2) The cancellation of the prior lease by the department; or

(3) The surrender of a lease by the prior lessee.

The department submitted testimony in support of the bill.

Presently, advances made by the department are funded through the Hawaiian home loan fund or general loan funds. Your Committee finds that this bill would have a positive effect upon the financial solvency of both funds.

However, passage of the bill will require the consent of the federal government. Accordingly, your Committee has amended the bill by including a severability provision.

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. 626, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 626, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair