Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Higher Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 199 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaii at Hilo to work with appropriate government offices to develop a plan to promote the Hawaiian language in all state and county government offices.

Your Committees find that developing a plan for use of the Hawaiian language in government offices is appropriate, given the special status of the Hawaiian language as established in the state constitution. The collection and dissemination of the appropriate technology for providing updated letterheads in Hawaiian and English for official state and county stationery will be a logical next step in the Lexicon Development Program of the College of Hawaiian Language.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 199 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Transportation and Government Operations.