STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2490

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3049
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
3049 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make certain records of the
Department of Land and Natural Resources that relate to the
location and description of historic sites, including burial
sites, confidential records.

     Your Committee finds that an historic site that is deemed
sensitive by an island burial council or the Hawaii Historic
Places Review Board will be protected by this measure.  It would
be ironic and ultimately tragic, if the records of agencies
established to protect historic sites and cultural treasures
became the source of information used by "pot hunters" and profit
seekers to disturb, damage, or destroy the very sites and items
that the law seeks to protect.

     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.
3049 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair


 
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