Report Title:

State Foundation on Culture & Arts; Haw'n. Cultural Practitioner

 

Description:

Amends the makeup of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Commission by requiring at least one member to be a Hawaiian cultural practitioner. Defines Hawaiian cultural practitioner.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

496

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to state foundation on culture and the arts.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 9-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""Hawaiian cultural practitioner" means a person who, by reason of education or extensive experience, is generally recognized as being professionally qualified in the practice of the customs and traditions exercised for but not limited to subsistence, cultural and religious purposes possessed by the descendants of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands which exercised sovereignty and subsisted in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778."

SECTION 2. Section 9-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The foundation shall be governed by a policymaking and oversight commission to be known as the state foundation on culture and the arts commission. The commission shall be composed of nine members to be appointed and removed by the governor pursuant to section 26-34. The term of each member shall be for four years, commencing on July 1 and expiring on June 30; provided that for terms commencing after June 30, 2001, the governor shall appoint at least one member who is a Hawaiian cultural practitioner, and that for terms commencing on or after July 1, 1999, the governor shall appoint at least one member who resides in the county of Hawaii, one member who resides in the county of Kauai, and one member who resides in the county of Maui. The governor shall appoint the chairperson of the commission from among its members. The members of the commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for travel and other necessary expenses in the performance of their official duties."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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