STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1379-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2875

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2875 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY COMMITTEE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to incorporate consideration of issues significant to native Hawaiian culture into decisions regarding endangered species by requiring the inclusion of a member with a background in native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices on the Endangered Species Recovery Committee.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and a concerned individual submitted testimony in support of the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including criteria by which the traditional and customary practice background requirement may be met.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2875, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2875, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair