Bill Text: HI SCR75 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Korean National Association Plaque

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-09 - (H) Referred to TCI, referral sheet 63 [SCR75 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR75-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3059

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 75

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 75 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING GOVERNOR LINDA LINGLE TO RECOGNIZE LOCAL KOREANS BY ALLOWING A COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE TO BE PLACED ON MILLER STREET ADJACENT TO WASHINGTON PLACE, FORMER SITE OF THE KOREAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request Governor Linda Lingle to direct the placement of a plaque commemorating the Korean National Association on the grounds of Washington Place.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Korean American Foundation Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds one of the remarkable achievements of the early Korean immigrants in Hawaii, whose population in the islands was only 4,533 at the time, was the building of the headquarters of the Korean National Association (KNA) in 1914.  At a time when Korean immigrants had no mother country to which they might return, KNA was a unique entity that represented and protected Koreans in Hawaii.  A commemorative plaque marking the site of the KNA headquarters will serve to remind both Hawaii's Korean community, and an increasing number of Korean visitors about the life of early Korean immigrants in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending the title to read:  REQUESTING GOVERNOR LINDA LINGLE TO RECOGNIZE LOCAL KOREANS BY ALLOWING A COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE DESIGNATING THE FORMER SITE OF THE KOREAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION;

 

     (2)  Deleting the specific location for the placement of the commemorative plaque, in order to allow for further discussion on its final location; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of consistency.

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 75, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 75, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Technology,

 

		____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair