STAND. COM. REP. NO. 277-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2404

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Culture, Arts, & International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2404 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMPACTS OF FREE ASSOCIATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a Compacts of Free Association Census Task Force to enact a census-taking project to count the number of Compacts of Free Association residents in the State.

Your Committee did not receive any testimony on this measure.

Your Committee finds that undertaking a census-taking project to count the number of Compacts of Free Association residents in the State is in the best interest of the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2044, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Culture, Arts, & International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2404, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2404, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Culture, Arts, & International Affairs,

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CEDRIC ASUEGA GATES, Chair