Bill Text: HI HB155 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Burial Sites

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB155 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB155-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  513

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 155

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 155 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BURIAL SITES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect native Hawaiian burial sites by:

 

     (1)  Providing for the treatment of inadvertently discovered native Hawaiian burial sites, including the time limits within which determinations by island burial councils must be rendered; and

 

     (2)  Deleting Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai‘i Nei as an appropriate Hawaiian organization with which the Department of Land and Natural Affairs must consult in carrying out various duties under chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Afffairs (OHA), Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter and a member of the OHA Board of Trustees supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Society for Hawaiian Archaeology opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Adding reviewing mitigation plans for the inadvertent discovery of native Hawaiian burial sites as one of the duties of island burial councils under section 6E-43.5(f), Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (2)  Specifically exempting public-works projects undertaken by state or county agencies from the provisions of this bill; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 155, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 155, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair		____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair