Bill Text: HI SB985 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: OHA Budget

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB985 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB985-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1024

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 985

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 985, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BUDGET OF THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support programs that benefit Hawaiians and native Hawaiians by appropriating funds for the operating budget of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA).

 

     OHA, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Papa Ola Lokahi, Aha Kiole Advisory Committee, and the Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2011.

 

     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 S.B. No. 985, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 985, S.D. 1, 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