HI SB3200

Establishes October 28 as "Immigrants Day," a new state holiday coinciding with National Immigrants Day, to recognize contributions of immigrant communities to Hawaii since the mid-nineteenth century

Removes Statehood Day (third Friday in August) from the list of official state holidays

Creates Statehood Day as a non-holiday "day of recognition" on August 21 to memorialize Hawaii becoming the fiftieth state in 1959

Acknowledges the controversial nature of Statehood Day due to historical injustices against Native Hawaiians, including the 1993 federal apology resolution for suppressing Native Hawaiian sovereignty

Recognizes Hawaii's history of immigration including over 50,000 Chinese laborers (beginning 1852), 16,000 Portuguese (1878), 200,000 Japanese (1885), Korean immigrants (1903), and Filipino laborers who became the majority of sugar plantation workers by 1932