STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1478

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.C.R. No. 80

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 80 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY THE POTENTIAL TRANSFER OF MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ROYAL MAUSOLEUM AT MAUNA ‘ALA TO ONE OR MORE APPROPRIATE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a working group to study the potential transfer of management and maintenance of the Royal Mausoleum at Mauna ‘Ala to one or more appropriate nonprofit organizations.

Kamehameha Schools, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by adding the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs and the Royal Societies – ‘Aha Hipu‘u to the list of participants in the working group, and specifying that the Department of Land and Natural Resources will be the State representative in issues regarding land management.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 80, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 80, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ KANIELA ING, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair