Bill Text: HI HCR6 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: OHA Package; Apology Resolution; Commemoration
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-25 - Received notice of Agreement and Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 738). [HCR6 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HCR6-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 929
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.C.R. No. 6
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 6 entitled:
"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLIC LAW 103-150, RECOGNIZING THE PROGRESS MADE TOWARDS RECONCILIATION AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN SELF-GOVERNANCE AND SELF-DETERMINATION, REAFFIRMING THE STATE'S COMMITMENT TO RECONCILIATION WITH NATIVE HAWAIIANS FOR HISTORICAL INJUSTICES, URGING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ADVANCE RECONCILIATION EFFORTS WITH NATIVE HAWAIIANS, AND SUPPORTING EFFORTS TO FURTHER THE SELF-DETERMINATION AND SOVEREIGNTY OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Apology Resolution, Public Law 103-150;
(2) Recognize the progress that has been made towards reconciliation and Native Hawaiian self-governance and self-determination;
(3) Reaffirm the State's commitment to reconciliation with the Native Hawaiian people for historical injustices;
(4) Urge the federal government to advance reconciliation efforts with Native Hawaiians; and
(5) Express the Legislature's support of efforts to further the self-determination and sovereignty of Native Hawaiians.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 6 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair |
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