STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2162

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 1294

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1294 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND TRUST REVENUES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allocate a portion of land trust revenues to the repair and maintenance of the Royal Mausoleum.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, the Charles R. Bishop Trust, Hale O Na Ali`i O Hawai`i, the Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, Ka Waihona o ka Na`auao Public Charter School, Kamehameha Schools, the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, the Ali`i Pauahi Hawaii Civic Club, the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, the Oahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and five individuals. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that this measure establishes that the allocation of public land trust revenues is not to be taken from the existing pro rata share of revenues reserved for the benefit of native Hawaiians. This measure was intended to create a continuing source of funding for Mauna `Ala. Your Committee supports a separate grant-in-aid for immediate repair and maintenance at Mauna `Ala. Your Committee refers this measure to the Ways and Means Committee and asks that it determine whether the expending agency for this measure should be the Department of Hawaiian Homelands rather than the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Your Committee also recommends that the Committee on Ways and Means work with the interested parties to determine the amount required as a continuing source of funding and establish a percentage from the public trust fund to meet that requirement.

This measure was amended in order to correctly identify the Royal Mausoleum as Mauna `Ala.

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. 1294, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1294, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair