Bill Text: HI HB1970 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Indigenous People Day
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - (H) The committees on TCI recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Manahan, Choy, Evans, McKelvey, Takai, Tsuji, Wakai, Wooley; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Berg, Marumoto; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Tokioka. [HB1970 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1970-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to INDIGENOUS people day.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 8-1.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§8-1.5[]]
Discoverers' Day[.]; Indigenous People Day. The
second Monday in October shall be known as:
(1) Discoverers' Day, in recognition of the
Polynesian discoverers of the Hawaiian Islands[,]; and
(2) Indigenous People Day, in recognition of indigenous peoples of the world;
provided that this day is not and shall not be construed to be a state holiday."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Indigenous People Day
Description:
Makes the second Monday in October also known as Indigenous People Day.
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