STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1673

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.R. No. 47

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.R. No. 47 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING EVERY COMMERCIAL OR PUBLIC BUILDING LOCATED ON DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS TRUST LAND TO DISPLAY A PHOTOGRAPH OF PRINCE JONAH KUHIO KALANIANA‘OLE AND A DESCRIPTION OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request every commercial or public building located on Department of Hawaiian Home Lands trust land to display a photograph of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole and a description of his achievements.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Ke One O Kākuhihewa O‘ahu Council of the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies.

Your Committee finds Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana‘ole, known throughout the Hawaiian islands as Prince Kūhiō, focused his life on the welfare and prosperity of his constituency and especially that of his own people, the Native Hawaiians. One of Prince Kūhiō's accomplishments was spearheading the passage of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act to provide housing and communities for the Native Hawaiian people through a government-sponsored homesteading program. That legacy lives on, with 10,000 beneficiary lessees currently living on Hawaiian homestead land and another 23,000 on the waiting list. Prince Kūhiō's efforts, accomplishments, and vision for the Hawaiian people should be commemorated.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Updating the findings to provide a more accurate number of individuals on the Hawaiian homestead wait list, in acknowledgment that applicants on the wait list may have multiple types of applications pending;

(2) Allowing buildings on Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to commemorate Prince Kūhiō with any medium of art, not just photographs;

(3) Updating the title accordingly; and

(4) 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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 47, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 47, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair