Bill Text: HI SB2594 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Department Of Hawaiian Home Lands.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-14 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM. [SB2594 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2594-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the department of hawaiian home lands.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that according to a survey conducted by the department of Hawaiian home lands in 2022, more than twenty-eight thousand native Hawaiian beneficiaries are currently on the homestead lease waiting list. The legislature further finds that when beneficiaries on the homestead lease waiting list pass away prior to receiving a lease award, the beneficiary also loses the ability to have their heirs succeed to a lease.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to allow the department of Hawaiian home lands to grant posthumous lease awards directly to qualified successors of elderly or terminally ill beneficiaries who were on the waiting list; provided that the successors file a claim for a lease award within four years of the effective date of this Act.
SECTION 2. (a) Any qualified successor of a beneficiary who passed away while on the waiting list shall have four years from the effective date of this Act to file a claim for a lease award in place of the named deceased beneficiary.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
DHHL; Beneficiaries; Lease Awards; Successors; Successorship Claims
Description:
Authorizes qualified successors of beneficiaries on the waiting list who died before receiving a lease to file a claim for a lease award within four years of the effective date. Requires the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to adopt rules by a certain date.
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