Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2928 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to honor our host culture by allowing the use of practices, techniques, styles, customs, and materials of indigenous Hawaiian architecture in present-day construction in the State.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu supported this measure with amendments. A member of the Maui County Council provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 H.B. No. 2928, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2928, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.