Report Title:

Patsy Mink, Work of Art

Description:

Directs the state foundation on culture and the arts to commission a painted portrait honoring Congresswoman Patsy Mink; appropriates funds. (HB1650 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1650

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO CONGRESSWOMAN PATSY T. MINK.

 

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

SECTION 1. United States Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink was an outstanding American, an outstanding woman, and an outstanding resident of Hawaii. She was the first Japanese-American woman elected to the House of Representatives in the territorial legislature, the first Japanese-American woman elected to the senate in the territorial legislature, and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress. She served in the Department of State and as chair of the Honolulu city council. She authored landmark legislation, such as Title IX, of the Higher Education Act, now renamed the "Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act" and the State's landmark equal pay for equal work law. She was a tireless champion of American ideals of freedom, equality, civil rights, and peace.

The purpose of this Act is to require the state foundation on culture and the arts to commission a painted portrait honoring the late Patsy Mink and to appropriate funds out of the works of art special fund to finance this portrait.

SECTION 2. The state foundation on culture and the arts, with input from the comptroller, shall commission a painted portrait honoring the late Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink, to be placed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa women's center.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the works of art special fund the sum of $1 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004 to fund a painted portrait honoring the late Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the state foundation on culture and the arts for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.