STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2849

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2249

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2249 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make it a civil and administrative violation for any person to engage in certain archaeological activities without obtaining the required permission or approval from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Historic Hawai‘i Foundation, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that current historic preservation rules adopted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources have not been updated in more than fifteen years and the current historic preservation rules, in some respects, provide incomplete, ineffective, or inadequate guidance on historic preservation processes and protection for historic resources.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Incorporating language to further clarify the definition of civil and administrative violations suggested by the Department of Land and Natural Resources; and

 

     (2)  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 Labor, Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2249, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2249, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair