Bill Text: HI HB1489 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: DHHL; OHA; Homeless; Pilot Program; Kanaka Village

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1489 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1489-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  223

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1489

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1489 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to alleviate the disproportionate number of native Hawaiians among Hawaii's homeless population by requiring the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) to:

 

     (1)  Collaborate with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority; and

 

     (2)  Develop and implement a pilot program to establish a community where native Hawaiians who are homeless may live in tents and subsist off the land using traditional Hawaiian methods of sustainability. 

 

     Kanaka Council Moku o Keawe and a concerned citizen testified in support of the measure.  The Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly and a concerned individual testified in opposition to the bill.  DHHL and a concerned individual offered comments on the measure.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

    

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,      consistency, and style.

 

     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. 1489, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1489, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Housing.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair