STAND. COM. REP. NO. 935

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1089

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1089, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KALO APPRECIATION MONTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to designate October as Kalo Appreciation Month.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; Oahu Council, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; and Taro Security and Purity Task Force.

 

     Your Committees find that kalo, the Hawaiian word for taro, is a culturally significant plant to the kanaka maoli, Hawaii's indigenous people, and to the State.  In 2007, the Legislature named kalo the official plant of Hawaii.  This measure encourages all people of Hawaii to honor the rich culture and history of the kalo plant during the month of October.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1089, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Technology and the Arts,

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair

 

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BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair