STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2430

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3118
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 3118 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN TERMINOLOGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the use of
Hawaiian names, terms, and phrases in the Kalaeloa Community
Development District.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Life of the Land, the Oahu Council,
the Kohanaiki Ohana, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, the
Royal Order of Kamehameha I, the Ilioulaokalani Coalition, and
eleven private citizens.

     Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the
State Department of Defense's Office of Veterans Services a
member of the State House of Representatives that represents the
forty-second district, the Oahu Veterans Council, the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, Department of Hawaii, the
Disabled American Veterans, Department of Hawaii, the American
Legion, Department of Hawaii, and three private citizens.  The
Barbers Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission
submitted comments.

     Your Committee finds that enabling the Barbers Point Naval
Air Station Redevelopment Commission to change the street names
and other geographic markings within the Kalaeloa district,

 
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formerly known as Barbers Point, to reflect the Hawaiian culture
and language is consistent with the purpose and intent of chapter
206G, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 3118 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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