STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1829

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   S.B. No. 1228

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1228, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORICAL PRESERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to honor the memory of Hawaii's World War II Japanese internees by establishing a process to determine the most appropriate means of memorializing the World War II Japanese interment camp experience in Hawaii.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, Japanese American Heritage Coalition, and Japanese American Citizens League-Honolulu Chapter testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Confinement Sites Committee of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii and Historic Hawaii Foundation testified in support of the intent of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1228, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair