Bill Text: HI SB406 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: OHA Package; Mandatory Training

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-24 - The conference committee deferred the measure. [SB406 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB406-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 659

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 406

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 406, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require members of certain state councils, boards, and commissions to complete a training course administered or approved by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs relating to native Hawaiian and Hawaiian rights.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and one individual.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Land Use Research Foundation.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted written comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that certain state councils, boards, and commissions administer public trust resources and programs that directly impact native Hawaiian and Hawaiian traditional and customary rights, natural resource protection and access rights, and the public trust.  Your Committee believes that the training course required by this measure will provide relevant guidance to certain state appointees to assist them in fulfilling their duties and responsibilities relating to native Hawaiian and Hawaiian rights in a culturally responsive manner.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to offer abbreviated training courses directly to state agencies, as well as councils, boards, and commissions; 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 Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 406, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 406, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair