Bill Text: HI HCR5 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: OHA Package; Kuleana Lands

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-20 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HCR5 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR5-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  635

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 5

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 5 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING KULEANA LANDS AS HISTORICAL LANDS AND URGING THE COUNTIES TO SUPPORT EFFORTS TO PROMOTE CONTINUED ANCESTRAL OWNERSHIP OF KULEANA LANDS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Recognize the historical, cultural, and ancestral importance of kuleana lands to Native Hawaiian families; and

 

     (2)  Urge the counties to support efforts to promote continued ancestral ownership of kuleana lands.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Oahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and several individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 5 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

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