STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1156

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 981

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 981, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to establish, design, and facilitate a training course relating to native Hawaiian and Hawaiian traditional and customary rights, native Hawaiian and Hawaiian natural resource protection and access rights, and the public trust, to be conducted twice a year for members of specified state councils, boards, and commissions within six months of their official appointment date.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, Aha Kiole Advisory Committee, and several concerned individual supported this bill.  The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii and a concerned individual opposed this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Maui County Farm Bureau offered comments.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 981, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair