Bill Text: HI HB1438 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Homestead Awards Reporting

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1438 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1438-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  511

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1438

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1438 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to promote the development of Hawaiian homestead lands by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL):

 

(A) In its annual expenditure report to the Legislature, to include information on the status of homestead lot awards, including the number of homestead lots awarded, lots with homes actually built and ready-to-build lots, and the amount of funds for infrastructure development; and

 

(B) To submit a report to the Legislature prior to the convening of the 2012 Regular Session, specified information relating to homestead lots contained in its annual reports between the years 2002 and 2009;

 

          and

(2) Authorizing $300,000 in general obligation bonds to build the water infrastructure system designed by the Honokaia ohana to support ranching activities on the Honokaia Homestead Tract in Waimea, Hawaii.

 

     DHHL, the Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the requirement that:

 

          (A)  DHHL submit the specified homestead lot award information to the Legislature; and

 

          (B)  A report be submitted to the Legislature;

 

     and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity,

consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1438, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1438, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair