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HI HCR330
Concurrent Resolution
Status
3/10/2010
Primary Sponsor
Mele Carroll
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AI Summary
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Requests the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to study the feasibility of transferring the State Historic Preservation Division's (SHPD) burial sites coordination and management responsibilities from the Department of Land and Natural Resources to OHA under Chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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Study must address the feasibility of transferring DLNR's police powers and enforcement authority for burial site protection laws to OHA.
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Study must examine OHA's ability to access private, state, and county parcels to investigate human skeletal remains discoveries and classify the ethnicity of remains under current law.
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Study must identify the staffing, funding, and resources necessary for OHA to assume these burial sites management responsibilities.
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OHA must submit findings, recommendations, and any proposed legislation to the Legislature no later than 20 days before the 2011 Regular Session convenes.
Legislative Description
Burial Sites Program; Transfer to Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Last Action
(H) The committees on WLO recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Ito, Har, Chong, Coffman, Herkes, C. Lee, Luke, Morita, Sagum, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Cabanilla, Chang, Ching.
3/24/2010