Bill Text: HI HB2531 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Hawaiian Homes Commission Act; Administration

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-28 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2531 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2531-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2531

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION ACT.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     Section 1. Section 207, Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The title to lands so leased shall remain in the State.  Applications for tracts shall be made to and granted by the department, under such regulations, not in conflict with any provisions of this title, as the department may prescribe.  Notwithstanding any rule to the contrary, the chairman, with unanimous consent from the commission may award a lease to any native Hawaiian with an original application date of not less than twenty years from the date of the approval.  The department shall, whenever tracts are available, enter into such a lease with any applicant who, in the opinion of the department, is qualified to perform the conditions of such lease."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2012.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST


 


 

Report Title:

Hawaiian Homes Commission Act; Administration

 

Description:

Allows the chairman, with unanimous consent of the commission, to suspend administrative rules for the purpose of awarding a lease to a native Hawaiian who has been on the waitlist for at least twenty years.

 

 

 

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