Bill Text: HI SB407 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: OHA Package; Island Burial Councils; Composition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 276, 7/9/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1382). [SB407 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB407-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 628

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 407

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 407 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ISLAND BURIAL COUNCILS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend statutory provisions relating to composition and quorum of island burial councils.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Oahu Island Burial Council, Oahu Council Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Society of Hawaiian Archaeology, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that certain island burial councils are having difficulty recruiting enough members to make quorum.  Some councils are unable to fill regional representative council seats, and other councils are unable to fill landowner council seats.  Your Committee concludes that this measure requires further clarification to ensure that each council will be able to make quorum.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Decreasing the number of council members for the Kaua‘i/Ni‘ihau council from eleven members to nine members;

 

     (2)  Decreasing the number of council members for the Moloka‘i council from nine members to five members; provided that the Moloka‘i council has no more than one representative of development and large property owner interests;

 

     (3)  Adding a representative from the geographic region of Honua‘ula to the Maui/Lana‘i council;

 

     (4)  Identifying Waimea and Na Pali as one geographic region as opposed to two separate geographic regions;

 

     (5)  Granting the Office of Hawaiian Affairs the discretion to provide the Governor with a list of regional representative nominees separate from the list submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and, if submitted, requiring a minimum of twenty percent of the regional vacancies to be filled by qualified candidates from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' list;

 

     (6)  Deleting the requirement that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs develop the list of regional representative nominees in consultation with appropriate Hawaiian organizations; and

 

     (7)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 407, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 407, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

		____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair