STAND. COM. REP. NO.2251

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2895

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2895 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR REPRESENTATION OF HAWAII AT THE FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to sponsor a Hawaii delegation to the Festival of Pacific Arts.

Testimony in support of the measure was received from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the `Ilio`ulaokalani Coalition, the `Ilio`ulaokalani Youth Coalition, Halau Haloa, and four private citizens.

Your Committees find that as a member of the Pacific island community, Hawaii should actively participate in the Festival of Pacific Arts. The Festival for Pacific Arts is the largest gathering of cultural practitioners and artists of the entire Pacific island nations. The last festival was held in New Caledonia in 2000. At that event, twenty-seven delegations were represented.

Your Committees have amended the measure by adding language that would enable the Hawaii delegation to submit a bid to host the Festival of Pacific Arts in the year 2008, and by making the effective date of the measure July 1, 2050, to ensure further discussion on the issue.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2895, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2895, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Education,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair

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JONATHAN CHUN, Chair