STAND. COM. REP. NO.  191-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2288

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2288 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to dispose of Department-owned or Department-controlled improvements or portions thereof on Hawaiian homelands through direct negotiations and at fair market rents for a term not to exceed five years.

 

     The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Community Alliance on Mental Health, and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2288 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair