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HI HR110
Resolution
Status
3/12/2021
Primary Sponsor
Gene Ward
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AI Summary
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Urges the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to study when the 50 percent Hawaiian blood quantum requirement will become so diluted that no new applicants can qualify for the Hawaiian Home Lands program.
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References the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, which established the program to rehabilitate Hawaiian people through 99-year homestead leases at $1 annual rent, with nearly 10,000 leases awarded to date.
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Notes that interracial marriages and blended families will increasingly dilute Hawaiian blood quantum, potentially frustrating the original purpose of the program to benefit native Hawaiians.
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References 2017's HB 451, which lowered the blood quantum requirement to one thirty-second Hawaiian for successors to prevent generationally held leases from being lost.
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Directs the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to anticipate the eventual dilution of blood quantum and determine what measures the state must implement to further the goals of the Hawaiian Home Lands program.
Legislative Description
Urging The Department Of Hawaiian Homelands To Conduct A Study To Determine If And When The Required Hawaiian Blood Quantum Will Be Sufficiently Diluted As To Bar Any New Qualifying Applicants For The Hawaiian Home Lands Program.
Hawaiian Home Lands
Last Action
The committee(s) on JHA recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
3/22/2021