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OHA committee pushes for $1 million audit and inventory funding after short-form substitute for SB 903
Summary
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) committee discussed a short-form substitute of SB 903 that now contains language from HB 1358, including a $1,000,000 request for an audit and inventory for the Public Land Trust Working Group; trustees voted to adopt staff positions on bills naming OHA.
Trustees on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ (OHA) Committee on Beneficiary Advocacy and Empowerment discussed a short-form substitute for SB 903 that has been replaced with language from HB 1358 and includes OHA’s request for $1,000,000 to fund an audit and inventory for the Public Land Trust Working Group.
The item was discussed during the committee’s matrix review of bills naming OHA. Lena Alalei, OHA’s director of advocacy, told trustees the short-form was a “cut and replace” using OHA’s language and that the language requests the working group remain active and an…
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