STAND. COM. REP. 738
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 1285
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1285 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC SITES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to better protect historic property and burial sites by:
(1) Providing penalties for anyone who inadvertently discovers a burial site and fails to stop work and report the discovery;
(2) Providing penalties for anyone who damages historic property or a burial site during development activities without obtaining required approval; and
(3) Requiring that, if human skeletal remains are discovered during development activities in which the required approvals were not obtained, all work shall cease, to allow for the proper removal of the remains.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the County of Hawaii Planning Department, and a member of the Oahu Island Burial Council testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of the intent of this measure.
Your Committee finds it essential to protect historic properties on private lands in situations where permitting requirements are ignored.
Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.
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 H.B. No. 1285, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1285, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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