Bill Text: HI SB2639 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: DHHL; Homestead Lot; Temporary Housing
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-14 - (H) The committee(s) on HAW recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB2639 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2639-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2378
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2639
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2639 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to enable the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to place eligible native Hawaiians on Hawaiian home lands without having to wait for development infrastructure.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, and seven individuals.
Your Committees find that this measure is intended to expedite the kuleana homestead program by allowing the settlement of unimproved available lands. According to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, there have been no residential lease awards to dated under the kuleana homestead program. This measure provides flexibility to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to pursue placing more Hawaiians onto kuleana lands.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting language to amend the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to authorize the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to allow lessees to settle, on a vacant homestead lot that has been awarded to the lessee, in a temporary structure for up to five years during construction of a legal, permitted, and permanent dwelling that complies with certain requirements; and
(2) Inserting language to require the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to conduct a public awareness campaign to educate affected communities about the provisions of this measure.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2639, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2639, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,
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____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair |
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____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair |
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