STAND. COM. REP. NO.  279-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2464

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2464 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to exclude from any waiting list maintained by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands any lessee or successor who sells or transfers their lease on a tract of Hawaiian home lands.

 

     A Council Member for the County of Maui, Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, Hoomanapono Political Action Committee, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General and Department of Hawaiian Home Lands provided comments to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Making technical amendments to move the new language to a more appropriate section of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act and conform the language to that used in the Act;

 

     (2)  Specifying limited exemptions, including for receiving a subsequent lease through succession; and

 

     (3)  Making nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2464, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2464, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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KANIELA ING, Chair