STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1655-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2678

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HONOULIULI,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide state support toward preservation of the site of the World War II internment and prisoner of war camp in Honouliuli by, among other things:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a Honouliuli park site project advisory group to develop recommendations to leverage county, state, federal, and private funding for an educational resource center at the Honouliuli site; and

 

     (2)  Appropriating funds for the Honouliuli park site project advisory group.

 

     The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, Hawaii Confinement Sites Committee of the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Japanese American Citizens League-Honolulu Chapter, and a concerned individual supported the measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Specifying the composition of the advisory group and requiring the advisory group to elect a chairperson from among its members; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2678, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2678, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair