Bill Text: HI HCR164 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Settlement; Ceded Lands; Past Claims

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-24 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on WAL with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Evans, Kobayashi, Yamane excused (3). [HCR164 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-HCR164-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	164
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the office of hawaiian affairs to consider RENEGOTIATing the state's transfer of land to the Office of hawaiian affairs for disputed claims RELATING to a portion of income proceeds from the public LAND trust.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Hawaii Constitution requires that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs receive a share of revenue derived from the public land trust; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State has the necessary funds to at least make partial payments to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and

 

     WHEREAS, efforts to settle the claims of past due revenue through the courts have proved to be unsuccessful; and

 

     WHEREAS, on April 11, 2012, Governor Neil Abercrombie signed into law a bill that transferred about twenty-five acres of ceded lands to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, presumably worth $200,000,000 for the settlement of past income and proceeds due to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from the public land trust; and

 

     WHEREAS, the land transferred to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs consisted mainly of Kakaako land and not any land from the neighbor islands; and

 

     WHEREAS, the amount and quality of the land transferred is not proportional to its estimated $200,000,000 value and the land itself is inadequate to build the infrastructure necessary to generate sufficient revenue; and

 

     WHEREAS, the settlement unfairly deprived the Office of Hawaiian Affairs of its constitutional right to receive past income and proceeds from the public land trust and essentially deprived Native Hawaiians of the full benefit of the programs administered by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; and

 

     WHEREAS, the settlement offer was the only alternative and choice for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to receive any kind of compensation owed to them for income and proceeds past due to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from the public land trust; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2014, the Senate concurring, that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is requested to consider reopening negotiations with the State for the settlement of past income and proceeds due to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs from the public land trust lands under sections 4 and 6 of Article XII of the Hawaii State Constitution, for the period between November 7, 1978, up to and including June 30, 2012, as formalized in Act 15, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor and the Chairperson of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Settlement; Ceded Lands; Past Claims