STAND. COM. REP. NO.  299-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2955

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2955 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expand the use and knowledge of Hawaii's archaeological information by establishing an archaeological data survey as an online database program of the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History.  

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Bishop Museum testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported the intent of this measure.  The Society for Hawaiian Archaeology opposed this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2955 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KEN ITO, Chair