110 HR 3332 EH: To provide for the establishment of a
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1.This Act may be cited as the
Kalaupapa Memorial Act of 2008
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2.Establishment of
memorial within Kalaupapa National Historical Park
(a)The Secretary of
Interior shall authorize Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, a non-profit organization
consisting of patient residents at Kalaupapa National Historical Park, and
their family members and friends, to establish a memorial at a suitable
location or locations approved by the Secretary at Kalawao or Kalaupapa within
the boundaries of Kalaupapa National Historical Park located on the island of
Molokai, in the State of Hawaii, to honor and perpetuate the memory of those
individuals who were forcibly relocated to Kalaupapa Peninsula from 1866 to
1969.
(b)
(1)The memorial
authorized by subsection (a) shall—
(A)display in an appropriate manner the names
of the first 5,000 individuals sent to the Kalaupapa Peninsula between 1866 and
1896, most of whom lived at Kalawao; and
(B)display in an appropriate manner the names
of the approximately 3,000 individuals who arrived at Kalaupapa in the second
part of its history, when most of the community was concentrated on the
Kalaupapa side of the peninsula.
(2)The
location, size, design, and inscriptions of the memorial authorized by
subsection (a) shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the
Interior.
(c)Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, a nonprofit
organization, shall be solely responsible for acceptance of contributions for
and payment of the expenses associated with the establishment of the
memorial.
Passed the House of
Representatives February 12, 2008.
Lorraine C. Miller,
Clerk.