Bill Text: HI HB220 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Mandatory Training

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Coffman, Har, Say excused (3). [HB220 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB220-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  391

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 220

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 220, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to establish, design, and administer a training course relating to native Hawaiian and Hawaiian issues;

 

     (2)  Mandate that specified board, commission, and council members attend this training course; and

 

     (3)  Allow other interested members of a state council, board, or commission, or state or county officers, representatives, or employees to request to enroll in this training course.  

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Hawaiian Affairs Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies testified in opposition to this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii provided comments. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 220, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 220, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

		____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair