STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2559

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2118
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2118, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for the more
efficient protection of culturally significant Hawaiian burial
sites and heiau in Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that heiau and other burial sites
should be protected from desecration and alteration wherever they
are found, on private, or public lands.  The protection of
Hawaii's unique culturally sensitive sites is a relatively
recent phenomenon and no one really knows how many sites were
destroyed between 1878 and into the decade of the 1970s.  Your
Committee finds that sanctions for violations of this law are a
reasonable way to protect the sites that are still intact and
identifiable.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting section
3 which gives the Department of Land and Natural Resources the
duty to provide administrative support to the burial sites
program and the councils.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2118, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2118, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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