STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1381-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3338

S.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 Culture, Arts, & International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3338, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KALAUPAPA MEMORIAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the design, planning, and construction of the Kalaupapa Memorial.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, one member of the Maui County Council, Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, Damien Museum in Tremelo, Damien Archives in Leuven, Living Life Source Foundation, IDEA Center for the Voices of Humanity, Ke Kai O Kuloloi‘a, Roman Catholic Church Diocese of Honolulu, and numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that a memorial to honor the more than eight thousand people who were separated from their families and institutionalized at the Kalaupapa Settlement on the island of Molokai will allow for family members to reconnect with their ancestors and their stories and shine a light on a crucial segment of Hawaii's history.

Should your Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests it consider appropriating $5,000,000 for the design, planning, and construction of the Kalaupapa Memorial.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Culture, Arts, & International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3338, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Culture, Arts, & International Affairs,

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CEDRIC ASUEGA GATES, Chair