REPORT TITLE:
HHL Trust Claims Defense


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to defend the Department of Hawaiian Home
Lands in proceedings before the Hawaiian Home Lands Individual
Trust Claims Panel.  (HB990 CD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        990
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII                                            C.D. 1
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES FOR
   DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS
   REVIEW.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  This Act is recommended by the governor for
 
 2 immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of
 
 3 the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
 
 4      SECTION 2.  Act 116, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998,
 
 5 appropriated $188,432 in general funds to the department of the
 
 6 attorney general to defend the department of Hawaiian home lands'
 
 7 interests in the review of individual claims brought pursuant to
 
 8 chapter 674, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  The appropriated amount is
 
 9 for only eight months of fiscal year 1998-1999.
 
10      A critical funding emergency exists.  The Hawaiian home
 
11 lands trust individual claims review panel ("panel"), the body
 
12 which receives and reviews claims of individual native Hawaiian
 
13 beneficiaries for actual damages, is authorized to continue to
 
14 process claims until December 31, 1999.  The Hawaiian claims
 
15 office, of which the panel is a part, is funded until June 30,
 
16 1999.  However, the appropriation for the department of the
 
17 attorney general will be completely expended by the end of
 
18 February 1999.  Without additional appropriations from the
 

 
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 1 general fund, the department of the attorney general will be
 
 2 unable to continue its defense of the department of Hawaiian home
 
 3 lands' interests in the claims review process after February 28,
 
 4 1999.
 
 5      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate additional general
 
 6 fund moneys to allow the department of the attorney general to
 
 7 continue its legal representation of the department of Hawaiian
 
 8 home lands under chapter 674, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the
 
 9 period March 1, 1999, through June 30, 1999.
 
10      SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
11 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $97,216 or so much
 
12 thereof as may be necessary, for fiscal year 1998-1999 to allow
 
13 the department of the attorney general to continue its legal
 
14 representation of the department of Hawaiian home lands under
 
15 chapter 674, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the period March 1,
 
16 1999, through June 30, 1999.
 
17      SECTION 4.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
18 department of the attorney general for the purposes of this Act.
 
19      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.