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Senate Committee on Hawaiian Affairs adopts HB576 amendment, advances $50 million request for HB606 and defers HB1408
Summary
The Senate Committee on Hawaiian Affairs voted to adopt an amendment to HB576 that exempts Hawaiian Homes lands, approved a committee report requesting a $50,000,000 appropriation for HB606, and recommended indefinite deferral of HB1408 during a March 18 decision-making session.
The Senate Committee on Hawaiian Affairs met in a decision-making session Tuesday, March 18, and voted to adopt an amendment to House Bill 576, approved a committee report requesting a $50,000,000 appropriation for House Bill 606, and recommended indefinite deferral of House Bill 1408.
The committee adopted the chair’s proposed amendment to HB576 that would add language on page 13, lines 4–9 stating that the section “shall not apply to any transfers of Hawaiian Homes lands under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act 1920 as amended,” and that such transfers “shall be governed by the provisions of that act, including but not…
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