STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1062

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 700
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 700, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the
biennial budget of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

     Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawaiian Political Action
Council of Hawaii.

     The measure as received by your Committee provides
$7,090,740 for FY 1999-2000 and $7,029,161 for FY 2000-2001 for
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the
amendments made by the House Committee on Finance and reinserting
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' original budget request.

     Your Committee finds that the funds appropriated by this
measure will provide the Office of Hawaiian Affairs with the
necessary funding to maintain its program operations.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached

 
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to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 700, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 700, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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