STAND. COM. REP. NO.3197

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2400

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2400, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate interim revenue for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Your Committee recognizes that the issue of public trust revenues and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a long and complicated one, and that both the State and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs are working to reach a good-faith solution. The State's obligation toward native Hawaiians is firmly established in our Constitution and is one that the State will honor. Your Committee finds that it is imperative for the Legislature to continue to fund the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to allow it to accomplish its mission while a long-term solution to this political and social problem is being examined and refined.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making the effective date defective for the purposes of continuing discussion.

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. 2400, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2400, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair