STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2750

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 3067

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3067 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRINCE JONAH KUHIO KALANIANAOLE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require certain public buildings on Hawaiian home lands to display portraits of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Ke One O Kākuhihewa, Oahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; Prince Kūhiō Hawaiian Civic Clubs; and two individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole led the effort to convince the United States Congress to pass the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, under which the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands was created.  Your Committee further finds that as 2020 is the centennial anniversary for the drafting of the Act, it is appropriate to honor Prince Kuhio's legacy as the author of the Act.  This measure will require certain public buildings on Hawaiian home lands to display portraits of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole to honor Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3067, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3067, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair