Bill Text: HI HCR72 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State-Province Affiliation; Bohol Province

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Referred to VMI, FIN, referral sheet 33 [HCR72 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2015-HCR72-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	72
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE-PROVINCE AFFILIATION BETWEEN THE STATE OF HAWAII OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE PROVINCE OF BOHOL OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the State of Hawaii is actively seeking to expand its international ties and has an abiding interest in developing goodwill, friendship, and economic relations between the people of Hawaii and the people of Asian and Pacific countries; and

 

     WHEREAS, as part of its effort to achieve this goal, Hawaii has established a number of sister-state agreements with provinces in the Pacific region; and

 

     WHEREAS, because of the historical relationship between the United States of America and the Republic of the Philippines, there continue to exist valid reasons to promote international friendship and understanding for the mutual benefit of both countries to achieve lasting peace and prosperity as it serves the common interests of both countries; and

 

     WHEREAS, there are historical precedents exemplifying the common desire to maintain a close cultural, commercial, and financial bridge between ethnic Filipinos living in Hawaii with their relatives, friends, and business counterparts in the Philippines, such as the previously established sister-city relationship between the City and County of Honolulu and the City of Cebu in the Province of Cebu; and

 

     WHEREAS, similar state-province relationships exist between the State of Hawaii and the Provinces of Cebu, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, and Pangasinan, whereby cooperation and communication have served to establish exchanges in the areas of business, trade, agriculture and industry, tourism, sports, health care, social welfare, and other fields of human endeavor; and

 

     WHEREAS, a similar state-province relationship would reinforce and cement this common bridge for understanding and mutual assistance between ethnic Filipinos of both the State of Hawaii and the Province of Bohol; and

 

     WHEREAS, Bohol is the 10^th largest island in the Philippines, and being the number one producer of agricultural products in the Visayas region, listing rice, corn, and coconut as a few of its major crops, agriculture is one of its dominating economic sectors, but Bohol is also home to many notable tourist attractions including Chocolate Hills, Laboc River and the Philippine Tarsier, making tourism another one if its major industries much like Hawaii; now, therefore;

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2015, the Senate concurring, that Governor David Ige of the State of Hawaii, or his designee, be authorized and is requested to take all necessary actions to establish a state-province affiliation with the Province of Bohol in the Republic of the Philippines; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Governor or his designee is requested to keep the Legislature of the State of Hawaii fully informed of the process in establishing the affiliation and involved in its formalization to the extent practicable; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Province of Bohol be afforded the privileges and honors that Hawaii extends to its sister states and provinces; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that if by June 30, 2016, the state-province affiliation with the Province of Bohol has not reached a sustainable basis by providing mutual economic benefits through local community support, the state-province affiliation shall be withdrawn; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Hawaii's Congressional delegation, the Governor of the State of Hawaii, the President of the Republic of the Philippines through its Honolulu Consulate General, and the Governor and Provincial Board of the Province of Bohol, Republic of the Philippines.

 

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

State-Province Affiliation; Bohol Province