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HI SCR75

Concurrent Resolution

Status

Introduced

3/11/2011

Primary Sponsor

Michelle Kidani

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Origin

Senate

2011 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Urges the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to revise its blood quantum requirements for successors to Hawaiian homestead leases.

  • Requests reduction of the minimum required blood quantum for eligible successors from 25 percent to 12.5 percent Hawaiian blood.

  • Addresses hardship caused by current policy on lessees unable to transfer lease rights to relatives with less than one-quarter Hawaiian blood.

  • Identifies marriages between qualified lessees and non-qualified spouses as a factor reducing blood quantum across generations of Hawaiian families.

  • Directs transmission of the resolution to the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission.

Legislative Description

DHHL Leases; Blood Quantum; Successors

Last Action

(S) The recommendation was not adopted.

4/1/2011

Committee Referrals

Hawaiian Affairs3/16/2011

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