STAND. COM. REP. NO.  328

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1368

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1368 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KING KAMEHAMEHA CELEBRATION COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to change the membership composition and residency requirements of the members of the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission (Commission) and the source of funding for specified staff of the Commission.  Specifically, the measure:

 

(1)  Clarifies that the Commission includes a member from the Waimanalo Hawaiian Homestead Association and adds a member from the Daughters of Hawaii;

 

(2)  Requires the Governor's appointees be residents of the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii, rather than the islands of Kauai, Maui, Molokai, and Hawaii;

 

(3)  Specifies that the funding source of the salaries for the Commission's arts program specialist and part-time clerk be state funds, rather than fees, public contributions, and private donations, and

 

(4)  Appropriates funds for the Commission's operating costs.

 

 

     The Democratic Party of Hawaii, Hawaiian Affairs Caucus; Mamo Hawaii, Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Chapter 1; Royal Order of Kamehameha Ekahi; Waimanalo Hawaiian Homes Association; and several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services opposed this measure.  The King Kamehameha Celebration Commission submitted comments.

 

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that in determining the appropriation amount for each year of fiscal biennium 2015-2017, that it consider an annual salary of $21,000 for the Commission's part-time clerk typist.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1368 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair