Bill Text: HI SCR180 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Supporting The Development Of A Hawaiian Language Plan, Including Goals, Benchmarks, Strategies, And Outcomes, To Build Upon Accomplishments And To Accelerate The Normalization Of olelo Hawaii.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-15 - Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Eli, Gates, Holt, Nakamura excused (4). [SCR180 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SCR180-Introduced.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
supporting the development of a hawaiian language plan, INCLUDING GOALS, BENCHMARKS, STRATEGIES, AND OUTCOMES, to build upon accomplishments and to accelerate the normalization of ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i.
WHEREAS, the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages as part of an effort to draw attention to the critical loss of indigenous languages and the urgent need to preserve, revitalize, and promote indigenous languages and to take further urgent steps at the national and international levels; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations acknowledges that indigenous languages represent complex systems of knowledge developed and accumulated over thousands of years and are repositories of diversity and key resources for understanding and utilizing the environment to the best advantage of local populations; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations has expressed deep concern about the vast number of endangered languages, in particular indigenous languages, and stresses that, despite the continuing efforts, there is an urgent need to preserve, promote, and revitalize endangered languages; and
WHEREAS, ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i is an indigenous language of Hawai‘i and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Hawai‘i as one of the State's official languages; and
WHEREAS, the State of Hawai‘i, in upholding the spirit of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, and in recognition of the numerous achievements over the past 35 years in preserving and revitalizing ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i, has proclaimed 2019 the Year of the Indigenous Language; and
WHEREAS, for the past 35 years, ‘Aha Pūnana Leo along with other Hawaiian language movement leaders, including Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language, Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, and all Hawaiian language programs throughout the University of Hawai‘i System, the Department of Education Office of Hawaiian Education, the Hawaiian medium and Hawaiian immersion schools and all other Hawaiian language programs at all public schools including charter schools, and Kamehameha Schools have collectively worked to reverse the language loss that occurred at the turn of the 20th century and to preserve, revitalize, and promote this indigenous language through cooperative efforts to raise speakers of ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i, to educate learners in immersive settings, to normalize ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i in its homeland, and to drive and inspire change to ensure a living language in Hawai‘i and beyond; and
WHEREAS, the specific outcomes and results of these collective efforts include:
(1) Reestablishment of the Hawai‘i P-20 Partnerships for Education Hawaiian medium pathway of education from the Pūnana Leo preschools to the State's Hawaiian medium and Hawaiian immersion programs up through the graduate degrees offered at Ka Haka ‘Ula o Ke‘elikōlani, which serves over 4,000 students annually at over 40 different sites throughout the State;
(2) Hawaiian language being offered as a world language at over two-thirds of Hawai‘i Department of Education high schools;
(3) Hawaiian language broadcast media initiative in partnership with ‘Aha Pūnana Leo and ‘Ōiwi TV; and
(4) A generation of graduates from Hawaiian medium and Hawaiian immersion programs that grew up speaking Hawaiian and are raising their own keiki to speak and live ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i; and
WHEREAS, to build upon these successes and to further accelerate the normalization of ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i, the development of a Hawaiian Language Plan is necessary to advance the use of ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i in government services and transactions, private sector activity, and tourism, in addition to education; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirtieth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2019, the House of Representatives concurring, that this body supports the development of a Hawaiian Language Plan to build upon accomplishments and to accelerate the normalization of ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that during the next two years, the ‘Aha Pūnana Leo is urged to coordinate a coalition to develop the Hawaiian Language Plan, including aspirational goals, benchmarks, strategies, and outcomes for the next 35 years; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the coalition to develop the Hawaiian Language Plan may include representatives of the ‘Aha Pūnana Leo, Ka Haka ‘Ula O Ke‘elikōlani Hawaiian Language College, Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, Department of Education Office Of Hawaiian Education, Kamehameha Schools, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, ‘Ōiwi TV, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, ‘Aha Kauleo, Kanaeokana, Keomālamalama, and other organizations as appropriate to ensure collective representation in the development of the Plan; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaiian Language Plan, including any proposed legislation, be submitted to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2021; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, members of Hawai‘i's congressional delegation, Chief Executive Officer of ‘Aha Pūnana Leo, Director of Ka Haka ‘Ula o Ke‘elikōlani Hawaiian Language College, Dean of the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian
Knowledge, Director of the Department of Education Office of Hawaiian Education, Chief Executive Officer of Kamehameha Schools, and ‘Ōiwi Television Network.
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Hawaiian Language Plan; ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i
