STAND. COM. REP. NO.  2273

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2019

 

RE:   S.C.R. No. 204

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 204 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIVE HAWAIIAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP A SUI GENERIS LEGAL SYSTEM TO RECOGNIZE AND PROTECT NATIVE HAWAIIAN CULTURAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS, AND GENETIC RESOURCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the appropriate state departments and agencies, in collaboration with each other and with appropriate private and non-profit sector cultural, scholarly, and legal persons and organizations, to establish the Native Hawaiian Intellectual Property Task Force for the purpose of developing a sui generis legal system to protect Native Hawaiian indigenous cultural intellectual property, traditional cultural expressions, and genetic resources.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Ka Lāhui Hawai‘i, Na Kupuna Moku O Keawe, Kanehili Cultural Hui, and numerous individuals.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Aha Moku Advisory Committee submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requesting that the Aha Moku Advisory Committee participate in the establishment of the Task Force; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 204, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Judiciary in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 204, H.D. 1.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair