STAND. COM. REP. NO.  797-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2955

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2955 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to expand the use and knowledge of Hawaii's archaeological information by establishing an archaeological data survey as an online database program of the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Bishop Museum testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2955, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2955, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair