STAND. COM. REP. NO. 671

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 985

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 985 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the 2011-2013 biennial operating and capital improvement budget of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Alice Greenwood.

 

     Your Committee finds that the primary purpose of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs general funds received from the State is to provide services and assistance to Native Hawaiians in the areas of social services, legal services and representation, and educational programs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriations to unspecified sums;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the issue; and

 

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

 

     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 S.B. No. 985, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 985, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair