STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2298
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2806
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2806 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KING KAMEHAMEHA CELEBRATION COMMISSION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to:
(1) Amend the membership of the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission;
(2) Authorize the chairperson of the commission to establish an advisory committee composed of past commission members to advise the chairperson on the historical and archival background of the commission;
(3) Amend the personnel and support staff of the commission; and
(4) Establish an executive director for the commission.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and two individuals.
Your Committee finds that this measure provides necessary updates to the membership of the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission, clarifies the role and functions of the commission and its chairperson, and provides the commission's chairperson with formal access to an advisory committee.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2806, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2806, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,
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________________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair |
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