Bill Text: HI HB222 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Appropriations; Budget ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-25 - Act 170, on 6/24/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1273). [HB222 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB222-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 985

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 222

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 222, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BUDGET OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for the fiscal biennium beginning July 1, 2013, and ending June 30, 2015.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kanaiolowalu, Na Pua No‘eau, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and five individuals.  Na Pua No‘eau also submitted a petition with more than two thousand signatures in support of this measure.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     The primary purpose of appropriations to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is to provide services and assistance to Native Hawaiians in the form of social services, legal services, educational enrichment programs, health improvement program services, and leveraged opportunities.  For the upcoming fiscal biennium, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is requesting funds for its two new areas of focus, health improvement program services and leveraged opportunities.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is also requesting an increase in funds for its educational enrichment programs and for personnel and operating costs.  Your Committee appreciates the importance of funding the foregoing programs for the benefit of Native Hawaiians.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 222, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 222, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair