STAND. COM. REP. NO.  909

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 209

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 209, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the operating costs of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for fiscal year (FY) 2015-2016 and FY 2016-2017.

 

     The Aha Moku Advisory Committee; Mediation Centers of Hawaii; Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; Koolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club; Koolau Foundation; REACH Out; Hawaii Green Growth; and several individuals testified in support of this measure.

 

     The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies and an individual testified in opposition to this measure.

 

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and several individuals provided comments.

 

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted a budget that totaled:

 

                              FY 2016          FY 2017

General Funds                $3,741,574       $3,741,574

All Means of Financing      $10,921,848      $10,921,848

 

     Your Committee on Finance has amended this budget to appropriate:

 

                              FY 2016          FY 2017

General Funds                $2,491,007       $2,491,007

All Means of Financing       $8,420,714       $8,420,714

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 209, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 209, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair