STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2183

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2986

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2986 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to the Hawaiian language.

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language to:

     (1)  Establish the Hawaiian Language University at the University of Hawaii at Hilo; and

     (2)  Transfer the rights, powers, duties, and functions of the Hawaiian Language College at the University of Hawaii at Hilo to the Hawaiian Language University.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

     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 S.B. No. 2986, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2986, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

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

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair