A state Senate committee in Hawaii voted on Tuesday to approve a resolution calling for a statue of former President Obama to be erected in his home state.

The state Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the resolution, KITV 4 News reported.

The resolution asks the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to commission the statue. It directs an art advisory committee to be created to choose a location for the statue and select an artist to create it.

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The resolution will now go to the Hawaii Senate's Ways and Means Committee.

President Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE led the "birther" movement against Obama, claiming falsely for years that the former president was born outside the U.S.

Obama eventually released his birth certification to counter the claims.