THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2008

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Chair

Senator J. Kalani English, Vice Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2008

DATE:	Tuesday, February 26, 2008
TIME:	2:45 p.m.
PLACE:	Conference Room 224 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

(Deferred from Tuesday, February 19, 2008)

SB 2557 Testimony	RELATING TO BURIAL SITES. Transfers jurisdiction of inadvertently discovered native Hawaiian burial sites from the department of land and natural resources to the appropriate island burial council.  Provides sixty days for burial council to make a determination on burial site treatment or removal.  Allows state historic preservation officer to make a determination if council is unable after sixty days.	AHW/EDT
SB 2644 Testimony	RELATING TO THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER. Specifies the required qualifications for a state historic preservation officer and adds requirement that notice of the appointment of a state historic preservation officer be given to the legislature.	EDT/AHW
(The Committee on EDT will be holding its decision making on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 1:15 p.m. in room 224.)
SB 2499 Testimony	RELATING TO TARO. Changes effective date of Act 36, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007,  which makes kalo the official plant of the State from 1/1/25 to 7/1/08.	AHW

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-587-7215.