STAND. COM. REP. 2589

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2922

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2922 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 the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to enter into business relationships with private companies.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (department).

Your Committee finds that a new section should be added to the Hawaiian Home Lands Act, 1920, as amended, to enable the department to actively participate in economic development projects on Hawaiian Home Lands. Your Committee believes that this measure is necessary and will help to reduce the cost of housing, encourage business and employment opportunities for native Hawaiians, and generate additional revenue for the department.

Your Committee has amended this measure to change the effective date to "upon its approval or upon the consent of Congress, if consent is necessary." Your Committee also amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

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. 2922, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2922, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair