STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1227-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2499

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Tourism & Culture and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2499 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TARO,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the establishment of kalo as the official state plant by changing the effective date of Act 36, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007 (Act 36), to July 1, 2008.

 

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Kawaihapai Ohana supported this bill.

 

     Your Committees find that interested stakeholders and others throughout the state should be offered an opportunity to provide input on this important matter.

 

     Therefore, your Committees have amended this measure by deleting the effective date of July 1, 2008, for Act 36 and, instead, making Act 36 effective only upon the completion of community dialogue with native Hawaiians, students from all islands, and those who identify themselves as Hawaiians, to be completed by the Department of Education through its existing curriculum.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism & Culture and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2499, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2499, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair