STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1715-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.C.R. No. 20

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 20, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A SISTER STATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE STATE OF GOA OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to act upon the recommendations of the Hawaii Sister-State Committee by establishing a sister-state relationship, pursuant to section 229-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes, between Hawaii and the State of Goa, Republic of India, to promote mutual commerce and trade and opportunities for economic, social, cultural, educational, and environmental exchanges.

 

     United States Representative Tulsi Gabbard and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism supported this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that before recommending the establishment of a sister-state relationship between Hawaii and the State of Goa, the Hawaii Sister-State Committee reviewed the Hawaii/Goa sister-state application; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments that hyphenate the term "sister-state" in its title so that it reads: SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A SISTER-STATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE OF HAWAI‘I OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE STATE OF GOA OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 20, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 20, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair