STAND. COM. REP. NO.  851

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 611

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 611, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DIGITIZATION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION RECORDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the management of records at the State Historic Preservation Division by appropriating moneys to implement an acceptable data management plan for the digitization of historic preservation records as required by the National Park Service and to hire necessary staff.

 

     The Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology supported this measure.  An individual opposed this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing all appropriated amounts to unspecified amounts;

 

     (2)  Changing the number of positions to be hired in the State Historic Preservation Division to an unspecified number; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 611, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 611, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair