Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 199 entitled:

begs 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 Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii at Hilo and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Your Committee finds 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 record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 199 and recommends its adoption.