Bill Text: HI SB409 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: OHA Package; Hawaiian Language; Olelo Hawaii Month

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-23 - Act 028, 4/22/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1128). [SB409 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB409-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1021

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 409

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 409, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MAHINA ‘OLELO HAWAI‘I,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to celebrate and encourage the use of the Hawaiian language by designating the month of February as "‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i Month".

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs testified in support of this measure.

 

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 409, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair