Bill Text: HI HB2480 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Historic Preservation; Register of Historic Places

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and Bertram, Cabanilla, Takumi excused (3). [HB2480 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2480-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  376-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2480

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2480 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PLACES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen laws protecting archaeological sites and features of historic significance by:

 

(1)  Providing for the examination of any inadvertent destruction of an archaeological site or feature by persons with knowledge of Hawaiian culture;

 

(2)  Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) State Historic Preservation Division to submit a report to the Board of Land and Natural Resources on the historic significance and current state of the site, upon inadvertent destruction;

 

(3)  Giving oral history precedence when determining the historic significance of an archaeological site or feature unless otherwise demonstrated by scientific evidence; and

 

(4)  Making the willful alteration or destruction of an archaeological site or feature listed on the state or national register of historic places by a person who has actual knowledge of its historic status, a civil and administrative violation.

 

     The Historic Hawaii Foundation, Kanaka Council Moku O Keawe, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  DLNR opposed this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and Society for Hawaiian Archaeology provided comments. 

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing the definition of "archaeological site" or "archaeological feature" to an illustration of what may be included as an archaeological site or feature;

 

(2)  Including a representative of OHA as an example of a person that may be called upon to examine an inadvertent destruction of an archaeological site or feature;

 

(3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2480, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2480, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

 

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair