Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2672 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriates funds for staff hires or contractors to develop prioritized inventories of cultural and historic sites and facilities eligible to included on cultural or historic registers for preservation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Oahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Malama Kukuiokane, Hawaiian Island Productions, and one individual. Comments were received from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

This measure would require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to collaborate with ethnic civic clubs throughout the State to develop an inventory of cultural or historic sites on public lands that are eligible for inclusion in the Hawaii register of historic places, and to prioritize them.

Your Committee finds that an inventory is necessary and would further the purpose of maintaining the Hawaii register of historic places. Section 6E-5.5(b)(6), Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the historic places review board to maintain the Hawaii register of historic places and to review the state survey of historic properties undertaken pursuant to section 6E-3(3), Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2672 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.