Bill Text: HI HB175 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Public Land Trust Revenues ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-07 - The committee(s) on JUD recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB175 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB175-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  38

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 175

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 175 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Provide that $10,000,000 from the Public Land Trust shall be expended by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for the development of farm and home ownership; and

 

     (2)  Require certain specified departments and agencies that collect revenue from the lands or use of the lands within the Public Land Trust to transfer $2,500,000 in the aggregate, quarterly, to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

 

     The Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Kuakini Hawaiian Civic Club of Kona, and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and the Department of Transportation provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 175, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 175, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair