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HI HCR332
Concurrent Resolution
Status
3/10/2010
Primary Sponsor
Mele Carroll
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AI Summary
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Requests the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to revise its successorship policies by lowering the blood quantum requirement from 25% to 12.5% for eligible successors.
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Addresses concerns that the current 25% minimum blood quantum requirement is insufficient to ensure lessee rights transfer to successors with less Hawaiian ancestry.
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Notes that intermarriage between qualified lessees and non-qualified spouses, combined with declining blood quantum across generations, creates barriers to land succession.
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Directs certified copies to be sent to the Governor, Senate President, House Speaker, Hawaiian Homes Commission Chairperson, and Hawaii's congressional delegation.
Legislative Description
Hawaiian Home Lands; Successorship
Last Action
(H) The committees on HAW recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 6 Ayes: Representative(s) Carroll, Shimabukuro, Bertram, Brower, Nishimoto, Ward; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Belatti, Mizuno, Yamane.
3/24/2010