Bill Text: HI SB2678 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Honouliuli Camp Site; Advisory Group; Appropriation

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-06 - (S) Act 235, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1338). [SB2678 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2678-Amended.html

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 177-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2012

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2678

       S.D. 2

       H.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HONOULIULI,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a seven-member Honouliuli park site project advisory group to develop recommendations to leverage funding for an educational resource center at the Honouliuli site;

 

     (2)  Require the advisory group to submit a report to the  Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2013 on its progress and the status of designating the site as part of the U.S. National Park Service; and

 

     (3)  Appropriate funds from the Hawaii historic preservation special fund for fiscal year 2012-2013 to fund the advisory group established pursuant to this Act.

 

     Your Committee on Conference finds that the proposed measure would add state funding to leverage federal funds and local efforts that have been underway for several years to evaluate and preserve the historic sites and stories of Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II.  These efforts include a feasibility study by the National Park Service to evaluate alternatives and preferred actions for preserving Honouliuli and related sites across the State.  Your Committee on Conference further finds that in 2009, United States Senators Daniel K. Inouye and Daniel K. Akaka introduced a bill to determine if World War II internment campsites in Hawaii may be eligible for listing as "units of the National Park System."

 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $100,000 and changing the source of funding to the general fund for the activities of the advisory group; provided that no funds shall be expended unless matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis by federal, private, or other external funds;

 

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2012; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Co-Chair		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair
____________________________ SHARON E. HAR, Co-Chair		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Co-Chair
		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Co-Chair
		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Co-Chair