STAND. COM. REP. NO. 895-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1529

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1529, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BURIAL COUNCILS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow an Island Burial Council member whose term has expired to continue in office as a holdover member under certain circumstances.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that this measure is intended to address delays in the nomination, appointment, or reappointment of members to Island Burial Councils by allowing members to continue to serve as holdover members until the member's reappointment is confirmed or a successor is nominated and appointed, up through the end of the fourth regular session of the Legislature following the expiration of the member's term.

Your Committee has amended this measure by 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. 1529, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1529, H.D. 2.

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

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair