STAND. COM. REP. NO. 939-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2135

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2135, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to directly assume review of proposed state projects relating to lands under its jurisdiction, rather than consulting the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the effect of those projects upon historic properties or burial sites.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Department of Land and Natural Resources. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology and Historic Hawai‘i Foundation.

Your Committee finds that this measure would streamline the process of reviewing certain proposed projects by allowing the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands to assume such responsibility, instead of requiring it to consult with the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a sunset date of June 30, 2027; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2135, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2135, H.D. 2.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair