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OHA outlines six-bill legislative package including burial-council fixes and proposed ban on live-fire training
Summary
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs presented a six-measure 2026 legislative package to the Waianae Neighborhood Board that includes changes to island burial councils (HB 2104), a narrower historic-preservation exemption, a new Land Use Commission seat for water-resource expertise, a proposed ban on commercial aquarium collection, a constitutional amendment to bar destructive live-fire military training on public trust lands, and a 3% rent-increase cap proposal.
Summer Silva, interim chief administrator for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, told the Waianae Neighborhood Board the agency’s trustees approved a six-measure legislative package for 2026 that aims to strengthen cultural protections and housing stability for Native Hawaiians.
Silva said one of the first measures, HB 2104, would change how island burial councils operate by allowing quorum requirements to be determined by the number of filled seats and by authorizing stipends for geographically based council members to ease participation barriers. "Only after consultation with recognized lineal and cultural descendants," she said, should decisions about unmarked burials proceed, and the proposed changes are…
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