STAND. COM. REP. NO.  311

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 611

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 611 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DIGITIZATION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION RECORDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the State Historic Preservation Division to implement an acceptable data management plan for the digitization of historic preservation records as required by the National Park Service and to hire necessary staff.  

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Historic Hawaii Foundation, and the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology provided testimony in support of this measure. 

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, in order to encourage further discussion.

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 611, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 611, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair