Report Title:

State Capitol Tours; Transfer to Legislature

Description:

Transfers the state capitol tour service function of the Legislature from the Office of the Governor to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; appropriates funds. (HB150 HD2)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

150

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

H.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE LEGISLATURE.

 

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

SECTION 1. Act 218, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 1991, transferred the function of the state capitol tour service (tour service) from the legislature to the office of information within the office of the governor until the state capitol renovations were completed. The purpose of Act 218, SLH 1991, was to provide for the continued operation of the tour service while the state capitol was being renovated. Those renovations are complete, but the tour service has remained under the office of the governor.

The legislature finds that plans are currently underway to locate the tour service in the number one capitol district building as part of a comprehensive tour package administered by the state foundation on culture and the arts (SFCA), which is administratively attached to the Department of Accounting and General Services. This bill begins the transfer of the tour service to SFCA.

The purpose of this Act is to transfer the tour service from the office of the governor to SFCA.

SECTION 2. The state capitol tour service function is transferred from the office of the governor to the state foundation on culture and the arts.

SECTION 3. All rights, powers, functions, and duties of the state capitol tour service are transferred to the state foundation on culture and the arts.

All officers and employees whose functions are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall continue to perform their regular duties upon their transfer, subject to the state personnel laws and this Act.

No officer or employee of the State having tenure shall suffer any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefit or privilege as a consequence of this Act.

SECTION 4. All appropriations, records, equipment, machines, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents, maps, and other personal property heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by the office of information under the office of the governor relating to the capitol tour service function transferred to the state foundation for the culture and arts shall be transferred with the function to which they relate.

SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004 for the transfer of the state capitol tour service to the state foundation for the culture and arts.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of accounting and general services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.