STAND. COM. REP. NO.  102-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3428

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Tourism & Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 3428 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to recognize the significance of the Hawaiian language to our state by requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services to:

     (1)  Develop a plan to have all signs in the State Capitol in both Hawaiian and English; and

     (2)  Submit the plan, including proposed legislation if applicable, to the Legislature prior to the 2009 Regular Session.

     The Representative of the Fifth Representative District supported this bill. 

     As this bill makes its way through the legislative process, your Committee respectfully requests future legislative efforts to consider whether an appropriation should be included in this measure. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2025, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism & Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3428, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3428, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism & Culture,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair