STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 784-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2930

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2930, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN TRADITIONAL AND CUSTOMARY PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to preserve Hawaiian traditional and customary gathering practices by:

(1) Establishing a pilot project that designates areas within public parks in Waianae to maintain plants and trees for Hawaiian traditional and customary gathering practices; and

(2) Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to submit a report to the Legislature on the Hawaiian traditional and customary gathering practices program and the feasibility of operating the program in all public parks statewide; and

(3) Appropriating funds for the pilot project.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. DLNR offered comments, expressing concern that this measure may create areas that only certain people would be allowed to use without resource controls.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to $1; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

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. 2930, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2930, H.D. 2.

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

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair