HB 715 Summary

• Amends Section 6E-43 of Hawaii Revised Statutes relating to prehistoric and historic burial sites by requiring survey maps to be prepared and filed after preservation or mitigation plans are approved.

• Requires the state land surveyor to prepare a survey map setting forth the approved preservation or mitigation plan and file it with the bureau of conveyance within 90 days of plan approval, in accordance with Section 502-17.

• Makes minor grammatical changes to existing burial site preservation language, replacing "which" with "that" and "such as" with "including" for clarity.

• Applies to both Native Hawaiian burial sites and non-Hawaiian burial sites, requiring survey map documentation in the prescribed manner for all approved burial preservation or mitigation plans.