STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2467

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2531

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2531, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ARCHAEOLOGISTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to reconvene and expand the membership of its 2006 archaeological working group to consider the licensing of archaeologists and related concerns.

     Your Committee received comments on the measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that the reconvening and expanding of the working group will provide an open forum to examine the feasibility and merits of licensing archaeologists and ensure the quality of archaeological work performed in the State.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2531, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2531, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair