Expressing support for the designation of February 2025 as "Hawaiian Language Month" or "'Ōlelo Hawai'i Month".

Summary

Recognizes and documents the history of the Hawaiian language, noting a late-19th-century law that effectively banned Hawaiian-language instruction and led to near-extinction by the 1980s, and highlights grassroots revitalization efforts since the 1960s that have driven policy change. Notes recent federal action creating Native American language resources. The measure is a set of findings and does not create new programs, funding, or regulatory requirements.

• Affirms that a late-19th-century law effectively banned Hawaiian instruction in schools.
• States that by the 1980s there were fewer than 50 fluent Hawaiian speakers under age 18.
• Highlights grassroots Native Hawaiian revitalization efforts beginning in the 1960s.
• Credits the revitalization movement with inspiring systemic language policy reform.
• References the Native American Language Resource Center Act enacted in 2023.
• Does not authorize funding, create programs, or impose legal requirements.
• Serves primarily as symbolic recognition and a record of historical and cultural facts.