STAND. COM. REP. NO. 101

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 978

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 978 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRINCE JONAH KUHIO KALANIANAOLE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require certain public buildings near mass transit projects and on Hawaiian home lands to display portraits of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies.

Your Committee finds that Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole served a nineteen-year tenure in the United States Congress during which was passed the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1921, under which the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands was created. Your Committee further finds that as 2021 is the centennial anniversary for the drafting of the Act, it is appropriate to honor Prince Kuhio's legacy as the author of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. This measure will require certain public buildings near mass transit projects and on Hawaiian home lands to display portraits of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole to honor him.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 978, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 978, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair