Bill Text: HI HB2672 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Public Land Trust

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-05 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and M. Lee, McKelvey excused (2). [HB2672 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2672-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  136-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2672

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2672 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the State to most effectively and responsibly make progress toward meeting part of its constitutional obligation to native Hawaiians by resolving claims and disputes relating to the portion of income and proceeds from the lands of the public land trust for use by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) between November 7, 1978, and July 1, 2010.  Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Appropriates $200,000,000 to OHA in $30,000,000 increments for each fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2015, and continuing until such time that the entire sum, plus applicable interest, is paid; and

 

     (2)  Requires the State to pay OHA interest on any remaining balance owed from July 1, 2010, at the rate provided for under Hawaii's State Tort Liability law, currently four percent a year.

 

     OHA testified in support of this bill.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style, including correcting language to consistently reflect that the $200,000,000 covers the period between November 7, 1978, and July 1, 2010.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2672, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2672, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair