STAND. COM. REP. NO.799-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2750

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2750, S.D. 1, 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 measure is to allow improvement of the general welfare and conditions of native Hawaiians by allowing the expenditure of Native Hawaiian Rehabilitation Fund (NHRF) funds on behalf of native Hawaiian groups.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Ka Lahui Hawaii and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds it appropriate to allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to fund educational, economic, political, social and cultural processes aimed at improving and perpetuating the general welfare and conditions of native Hawaiians, even in circumstances where some individuals who are not native Hawaiian might benefit from NHRF-funded activities.

Your Committee has amended this measure as follows:

(1) Deleting a reference to "other organizations controlled by native Hawaiians" for purposes of clarity, consistent with the testimony of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands;

(2) Inserting an effective date of February 30, 2050 to keep this measure alive while allowing an opportunity for further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style and clarity.

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 S.B. No. 2750, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2750, S.D. 1, 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