Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 62 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Governor to proclaim the second Saturday in October "E Ho`ola I Na Ala Hele Day" – "To Give Life to the Trails Day."

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

On October 15, 1892, the Kingdom's Highways Act, a very unique and significant measure, was enacted. Today, the Department of Land and Natural Resources uses the Act to ascertain and protect the public and government's interest in ancient and historic trails through its Nä Ala Hele Program. Thus, your Committee finds that honoring Hawaii's trails on the second Saturday of each October is appropriate.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 62, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 62, S.D. 1.