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HI HR249
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 jurisdiction over native Hawaiian burial sites from the State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to OHA under Chapter 6E, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
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Requires the study to examine transferring DLNR's police powers and burial site protection law enforcement authority to OHA.
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Directs the study to assess OHA's ability to access private, state, and county parcels to investigate human skeletal remains discoveries and classify remains ethnicity under current law.
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Requires the study to evaluate staffing, funding, and resources necessary for OHA to assume these burial site 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