STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1413-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2783

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2783 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC TRUST LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to effectively and responsibly meet the State's constitutional obligation to give effect to the right of native Hawaiians to benefit from the ceded lands trust by conveying certain public lands in Kakaako, Oahu, to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, with respect to their share of the income and proceeds from the public land trust lands from November 7, 1978, to June 30, 2012.

 

     The Governor; the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; the Department of the Attorney General; Kamehameha Schools; the Oahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; the Association of the Hawaiian Civic Clubs; PBR Hawaii & Associates, Inc.; and several individuals supported this measure.  An individual opposed this measure.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2783 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair