STAND. COM. REP. NO.865

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 376

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 376, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ART,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow Hawaii artists to display their art in state offices, agencies, or buildings and to allow the displayed artwork to be sold.

More specifically, the bill provides that, for any piece of art that is sold, eighty-five per cent of the sales price shall be kept by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and fifteen per cent paid to the artist. The measure also requires the Foundation to establish rules and implement the sale of art in state offices law.

Your Committee finds that this measure expands existing state policy permitting displaying local works of art within state buildings, a long-standing practice of which provides a positive benefit to both the artists and the public. In addition, this measure takes current procedures one step further by allowing an artist to sell a piece of art that is on display.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by adding a new section that authorizes the works of art special fund to be used to purchase books, works of literacy art, and other library resources for public libraries.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 376, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 376, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair