Bill Text: HI HB1327 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: BLNR; Native Hawaiian Traditional and Customary Practice

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to WTL/THA. [HB1327 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1327-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  745

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1327

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1327 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE AGENCIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to add a member appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Commission on Water Resource Management, and the Land Use Commission, plus an additional at-large member to the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     One individual testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Department of the Attorney General; Land Use Commission; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Hawaii Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO; and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees find that the Commission on Water Resource Management is already statutorily required to include one member with substantial experience or expertise in traditional Hawaiian water resource management and riparian usage.  Similarly, the Land Use Commission is required to include one member with substantial experience or expertise in traditional Hawaiian land usage and land practices.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting provisions that increased the membership of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Commission on Water Resource Management, and Land Use Commission, including by adding a member appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to each of those agencies;

 

     (2)  Adding a provision to require that the Board of Land and Natural Resources include a member with experience or expertise in native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices and specifying qualifications for that member;

 

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020; and

 

     (4)  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 Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1327, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1327, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

____________________________ FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair		____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair