Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 12, Number 2, 1 February 1995 — OHA's legislative package [ARTICLE]

OHA's legislative package

The following is a list of bills OHA has introduced into the Legislature for the 1995 legislative session. 1. Relating to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Clarifies that OHA trustee salaries be paid 50/50 from the general revenues of the state of Hawai'i and from OHA's trust funds. This bill would correct a technical error made in 1993 legislation that stated trustees salaries had to be paid entirely from ceded lands trust funds. 2. Relating to the trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Classifies trustees as elected officials.

3. Relating to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Clarifies that funds paid to OHA from use of ceded lands are "trust," not "special," funds. OHA is entitled to trust funds; special funds must be authorized by the Legislature as appropriations. 4. Relating to abandoned property. Provides that kuleana land escheats to OHA unless the person claiming such an escheat files an affidavit in the bureau of conveyances no later than Dec. 31, 1996. 5. Relating to homestead leases. Establishes a genealogy arbitra-

tion program wiihin OHA to aid those with an interest, or presumed interest, in homestead lands (not Hawaiian Homes) created by chapter 171 and commonly referred to as 999-year homestead leases. 6. Relating to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Housekeeping amendments to OHA's revenue bond bill. 7. Relating to the compensation of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs officers and employees. Allows OHA trustees to adjust salaries of OHA officers and employees excluded from eollective bargaining units 3, 4, and 13.

8. Relating to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Appropriates funds to match trust funds being used for OHA salary adjustments and positions solely funded from trust funds. 9. Relating to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. OHA's biennium budget. For more information on these bills eall OHA at 5941888.

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