SB1228

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1228
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to historical preservation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§6E- Honouliuli Internment Camp Memorial. There is established the Honouliuli Internment Camp Memorial as a historical site on Oahu, to be administered by the department of land and natural resources and to consist of those lands that the department considers essential to the unimpaired preservation of the visual and historical aspects of the World War II Honouliuli Internment Camp site.

Subject to legislative appropriation, the department shall acquire through purchase, land exchange, or both, those lands west of Kunia Road, identified as significant to the preservation of the site of Honouliuli Internment Camp, as a historical landmark and to increase public access to the memorial.

The memorial shall be developed by the department in consultation with representatives of property owner interests and private cultural groups, such as the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, through rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91."

SECTION 2. The department of land and natural resources shall submit a plan for the memorial to the legislature not later than twenty days before the convening of the 2008 regular session.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009, for the Honouliuli Internment Camp Memorial.

SECTION 4. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of land and natural resources for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 5. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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