STAND. COM. REP. NO.  143

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1154

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1154 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIANS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to formally recognize the aha moku system by creating the Aha Kiole Commission in the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  This Commission will empower native Hawaiians to participate in the management of Hawaii's natural, cultural, and historical resources.  Specifically, the new Commission would advise the Governor on issues related to land and natural resource management through the aha moku system, a system of best practices, based on indigenous resource management practices of moku boundaries, which acknowledge the natural contours of land, the specific resources located within those areas, and the methodology necessary to sustain resources and the community.

 

     Members of the Aha Kiole Advisory Committee and members of the 43 moku from each island, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, the Maunalua Hawaiian Civic Club, the Save Honolua Coalition, the Maui Cooperative Fishing Association, the Princess Kaiulani Hawaiian Civic Club, the Koolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club, and numerous individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the intent of the bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed the measure.  An individual provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1154 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair