STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1110

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 560

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 560, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii to translate the Hawaii State Constitution into the Hawaiian language.

Ho‘omana Pono, LLC., Aha Pūnana Leo, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies testified in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to December 24, 2088, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 560, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 560, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KANIELA ING, Chair