STAND. COM. REP. NO. 458

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 269

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on International Affairs and the Arts and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 269 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to place markers in the State of Hawaii to indicate significant sites in the life of President Barack Obama.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and two individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from two individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that President Barack Obama, the forty-fourth President of the United States of America, was born in the State of Hawaii and spent a significant amount of his life in the State.  Your Committees further find that placing markers at sites significant to President Barack Obama's life would be a point of pride for the State and would pay tribute to President Barack Obama's leadership.  Your Committees note that the recommended appropriation to the State Historic Preservation Division to place the markers is $50,000 for fiscal year 2017-2018 and $25,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying the reference to President Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America;

 

     (2)  Adding Noelani Elementary School to the list of significant sites;

 

     (3)  Making an appropriation for an unspecified dollar amount;

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2017; and

 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on International Affairs and the Arts and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 269, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 269, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on International Affairs and the Arts and Water and Land,

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair