Bill Text: HI SB68 | 2023 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Relating To Historic Preservation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-14 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM. [SB68 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2023-SB68-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

68

THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 6E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "historic property" to read as follows:

     ""Historic property" means any building, structure, object, district, area, or site, including heiau and underwater site[, which] that is:

     (1)  [over] Over fifty years old[.]; and

     (2)  Meets the criteria for being entered into the Hawaii register of historic places; or

     (3)  Has important value to Native Hawaiians or other ethnic groups of the State due to:

          (A)  Associations with cultural practices once carried out, or still carried out, at the property; or

          (B)  Associations with traditional beliefs, events, or oral accounts that are important to history, traditional practices, and cultural identity."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.


 


 

Report Title:

Historic Preservation; Historic Property

 

Description:

Amends the definition of "historic property" to require that the property meets the criteria for inclusion in the Hawaii Register of Historic Places or has important value to Native Hawaiians or other ethnic groups of the State due to associations with cultural practices once carried out, or still carried out, at the property or associations with traditional beliefs, events, or oral accounts that are important to history, traditional practices, and cultural identity.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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