STAND. COM. REP. NO. 182

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1105
                                        




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 S.B. No. 1105 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR
     LEGAL SERVICES FOR DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS
     INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS REVIEW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency
appropriation to fund the legal services provided to the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for individual claims review.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the Attorney General, and the
State Council of Hawaiian Homestead Associations.

     Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the
Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders' Association, Inc. and a
spokesperson for the Aged Hawaiians.

     Your Committee finds that funds budgeted for legal services
provided to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for legal
representation before the Hawaiian Home Lands Individual Claims
Review Panel will be depleted by the end of February 1999.  In
order to complete the resolution process mandated under Chapter
674, Hawaii Revised Statutes, funding for the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands' legal representation must continue.


 
a                                                     SB1105
 
                                   STAND. COM. REP. NO. 182
                                   Page 2


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1105 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading 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,



                                   ______________________________
                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
a                                                     SB1105