HI SCR179

Designates March 10 as Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands) Liberation Day to honor the people of Enewetak Atoll and their descendants in Hawaii.

Commemorates the U.S. capture of Enewetak Atoll from Japan during the Battle of Eniwetok (February 17-23, 1944), with residents marking March 10, 1944 as the day they emerged from bomb shelters.

Acknowledges that the United States detonated 42 of 67 nuclear weapons in Enewetak Atoll between 1946-1958, with combined power equivalent to 1.6 Hiroshima bombs daily for 12 years, resulting in displacement, contamination, and radiation-related health issues.

Notes that many Enewetak residents are now displaced immigrants living in Hawaiian Ocean View Estates on Hawaii's island, with citizenship rights under the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003.

Requires certified copies be transmitted to the Governor, Mayor of Hawaii County, President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Mayor of Enewetak Atoll, and the Consul General of the Marshall Islands in Honolulu.