Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 3, 1 March 1999 — OHA's 1999 legislative package [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OHA's 1999 legislative package

N ADDITION to lobbying for OHA's legislative package, I have been visiting legislators on key initiatives for Moloka'i and Lāna'i, such as: • Hui Mālama O Mo'omomi, seeking permanent designation from DLNR; • HB 1289, streamhning permit efforts and appropriating $120,000 to fund training for fishpond restoration; • Aquaculture, assigning a portion of appropriations to Moloka'i; • Hale O Lono Harbor, halting RFP efforts by DLNR and designating OHA harbor manager; • SB 1616, appropriacing $700.000 to Moloka'i General Hospital for operation; • HB 1742, funding capital improvement projects with $400,000 for a Moloka'i Rural Enterprise Zone. $150.000 for telecommunications. $200,000 for Mālama and Pālā'au Park. $100,000 for telemedicine communications construction. $494,000 for St. Francis Hospital dialysis and facility, and $120,000 for Home Dialysis; • Grants and Aids appropriating $700,000;

• Along with the transfer of lands to DHHL and a part-time OHA Community Affairs Coordinator position on Lāna'i. Although I am a member of OHA's Committee on Governmental Affairs, Board of Tmstees Chairperson Rowena Akana is not authorizing me to lobby legislators on behalf of OHA and is not approving my travel requests that indicate such legislative activity. Therefore, I am urging all Hawaiians, especially those on Moloka'i and Lāna'i to contact your legislators and voice

your support or opposition to any initiatives you want advocated and OHA's legislative package as Usted: • SB 451/HB 710, specifying one member of the Water Resource Management Commission shall be a representative from OHA; • SB 452/HB 708, appropriating $2.400,000 for FY 1999-2(X)1 tocomplete infrastructure for waterhnes into the Kīkala Keokea subdivision; • SB 453/HB 706, allowing 999-year homesteaders to purchase their leases for $1" • SB 454/HB 709, requiring proper

labehng of aquatic food | grown, manufactured. : significantly processed, p or landed in Hawai 'i; | • SB 455/HB 705. | amending HRS §343-1 I to require a cultural impact statement as part of any environmental review or assessment; • SB 456/HB 704, providing tuition waivers for Hawaiians in the University of Hawai'i system; • SB 457/HB 707, amending HRS §33814.5 to exempt Hawaiians from fees for certified copies of birth, marriage or death certifi-

cates required to verify Hawahan ancestry for ehgibility for services and benelīts; • SB 458/HB 702, providing OHA's BOT with the ophon to participate in the State Employee Retirement Plan for service rendered subsequent to November 1980; • SB 459/HB 701, specifying one member of the Hawah Tourism Authority shah be a representative from OHA; • SB 460/HB 699, appropriating $2,500,000 for inffastructure improvements to the Maunalaha Vahey subdivision; • SB 461/HB 697, involving the OHA ehah in the leasing of government-owned

Hawahan fishponds and expanding the role of BLNR to investigate and develop traditional or subsistence management practices for government-owned Hawahan fishponds; • SB 462/HB 696, naming OHA as a party signatory to ah Hawahan lands transactions; • SB 463/HB 695, specifying one member of the State Land Use Commission (LUC) shall be a representative from OHA; • SB 464/HB 694, specifying one member of BLNR shaU be an OHA representative • SB 465/HB 693, making OHA party to aU actions to quiet tifie of kuleana land in whieh escheat is an issue; • SB 466/HB 700, providing OHA's operating budgets during the 1999-2001 fiscal hiennium; • SB 467/HB 698, providing the DOE allow the transportation of public school students participating in the Hawahan language immersion program between departmental school districts on the same island; • SB 468/HB 703, providing OHA's BOT with the option to participate in the State Employee Retirement Plan for service rendered subsequent to July 1, 1993. " Remember never to cease to act because you fearyou mayfail" LiU'uokalani ■

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