Bill Text: HI SCR66 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Attorney General; Public Land Trust

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-30 - (S) Report adopted, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SCR66 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR66-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3117

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 66

       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 Water, Land, and Housing and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 66 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO TRANSFER A PORTION OF THE REVENUE DERIVED FROM THE CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER OF ANY LAND OF THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Department of Land and Natural Resources to transfer a portion of the revenue derived from the conveyance or transfer of any land of the public land trust to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and one individual.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees find that Native Hawaiian claims to ceded lands remain unresolved and steps should be taken to facilitate their resolution.  Existing statutory language regarding determinations of the amounts to be distributed to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs are too ambiguous, which leaves the language open to different and conflicting interpretations.  This measure expedites revenue disbursement by determining a clear and appropriate interpretation for a one-time disbursement amount to be derived at the time of conveyance.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requesting the Attorney General to provide input and assist the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Office of Hawaiian Affairs in determining the fair market value of the ceded lands at the time of conveyance; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 66, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 66, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair