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. 209

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 985

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

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 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the fiscal biennium budget of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Ko‘olaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club, and Na Pua No‘eau.

 

     Your Committee finds that the primary purpose of the General Fund monies appropriated to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is to provide a broad range of assistance to Native Hawaiians in the areas of social services, legal representation and services, and educational enrichment programs for Native Hawaiian children in grades K through 12.  Your Committee further finds that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has responded to the lingering economic downturn by developing a more proactive advocacy strategy and streamlining its operations as a performance-based organization.  In addition, the budget request for General Fund monies remains at the same level as the current biennium appropriation.

 

     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 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair