Senate Standing Committee on Hawaiian Affairs

Hello, everyone. This is the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs. It is Thursday, April 2, 1PM agenda here in Room 224. If for some reason we have to adjourn or there's an IT breakdown, we will reconvene next week, Tuesday, the seventh no. The yes.

The seventh, here in this room at 1PM. First item on the agenda is SCR 26 SR 23. And we're gonna be working on this. I'm gonna turn this over to committee Member Keohokalole to explain what we are doing here. Senator, please.

Thank you, Chair. This resolution was put forward by the Native Hawaiian intellectual property working group that was, convened via, legislative resolution three years ago.

And, alongside Representative Kila on the house side, I was asked to introduce this resolution to put it forward. The companion resolution on the house side, HCR 114 is moving on the house side and will come over to us.

from gift restrictions and reporting requirements. And, move this resolution forward addressing that subject matter, which is allowed for by the senate rules at the discretion of the Chair and with the approval of the committee so that we can have both conversations, which I think are worthy

And in the interim, we've received a request from the community, the Hawaiian community, to engage in a discussion about the ethics commissions treatment of culturally significant and customary gifts as it applies to the gift restriction and reporting requirements in chapter 84, HRS.

conversations to have in the Hawaiian Affairs Committee. So again, HCR 114 is the identical resolution to the original draft in this resolution right now and it will come over from the house.

And so, the request to the committee and to the Chair is to allow us to use the resolution as a vehicle to engage in that discussion. Insert language urging the Hawaii State Ethics Commission and the legislature to recognize and affirm the exemption of culturally significant and customary gifts

And so with your indulgence, I'd like to put forward this proposed draft to address the treatment of cultural protocol gifts and the discussion we should have with the ethics commission about it.

Okay. Thank you, Senator. And I do support this because we have the vehicle moving. We do have one person signed to testify in on Zoom call, a Shard Freitas. IT, do we have Sharde, Sharde on?

Shardae. Yeah. Shardae.

She is present on Zoom, Chair.

Yeah. Could go ahead and bring her in. This is a little different, but I wanna bring her into the conversation. Is she there?

Currently unavailable on Zoom, Chair.

Sorry. Can you hear? Oh, there she is.

Can you turn on your camera?

My I'm trying to my computer is, glitching at the moment, but I can hear.

Okay. Sharde, did you hear what Senator Keohokalole just spoke on?

Yes.

Okay. Are you understanding what our intention as a committee is doing here?

Yes.

Okay. Because you did sign up to testify. The intention and you have a commitment for me as Chair of this committee. I will hear the concurrent House Resolutions coming over which are the identical Trust. Narrative that we have here when they come over.

But this will allow us to have both conversations in these resolutions. You are not signed up to testify on what we are gonna be doing here, but are you comfortable as we go forward?

What we're gonna do is I'm gonna defer decision making on this until next week, Tuesday. So give people time to read the narrative and see all of that.

Yes. That works for me. Thank you.

Okay. Yeah. So I just again, in the full effort of transparency, this is what we're gonna be doing. So with that, Senator Keohokalole, do you want to do we formally amend this?

So I will be submitting the Resolution Draft. Well, the the amended language to you and the committee for consideration on Tuesday. If there are no objections from the other committee Members, I'd like to just provide it rather than reading the whole thing out loud.

And then we can post it on the ledge website so that everybody can view it. Is that okay?

Yep. I think that'd be fine.

Thank you very much.

Okay. Thank you. Open up questions on the other senators. Are we good with this going forward? Okay.

So again, decision making will be next week, Tuesday at 1PM, the seventh here in in 224. Okay. So that one is deferred. We can go right in decision making on the other agenda. I guess I gotta gavel out and gavel in on this one.

So IT, we're gonna gavel out on this one. So I think we're gonna gavel out on this one. Give me a countdown, and we'll come back in for decision making on the other agenda. Aloha everyone. This is the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs. It is Thursday, April 2 here in Room 224.

We are gathering in on a 1PM agenda just for decision making on a deferred measure at or two deferred measures, SCR 89 and SR 84. These were heard previously and the we were with the, the other committee, public safety, and they heard and and passed forward those resolutions.

We did not have quorums who are moving today. It's the recommendation of the chair to follow suit with PSM, adopt the recommendations of the community alliance on prisons, add four members to the advisory committee, two of them being adult correction officers and two former inmates.

So with that, it is the recommendation of the Chair to pass as amended. Any discussion?

Hearing none. Vice Chair for the vote. Chair votes Aye.

Okay. Members, we're voting on SCR 89 and SR 84. Recommendation of the Chair is to pass with amendments. [Roll Call] Chair, your recommendation is adopted.

Thank you. We're at the end of the agenda. We are adjourned.