STAND. COM. REP. NO.  74

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 902

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 902 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect the corpus of the public lands trust by prohibiting the sale in fee simple or exchange of lands in the trust.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General and a concerned individual opposed this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented.

 

     This bill is part of the OHA legislative package.  This OHA bill is intended to ensure that lands in the public lands trust are preserved pending a fair and just settlement of native Hawaiian claims to the ceded lands that leads to reconciliation between the State and the native Hawaiian people.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 902 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MELE CARROLL, Chair