STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1434

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 406

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 406, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAINING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require members of certain state councils, boards, and commissions to complete a training course administered by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs relating to native Hawaiian and Hawaiian rights.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Kuakini Hawaiian Civic Club of Kona, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies testified in opposition 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. 406, S.D. 2, 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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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair