STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1284

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 167

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Government Operations and Higher Education and the Arts, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 167 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES A TASK FORCE TO PLAN AND COORDINATE THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HAWAII STATE CAPITOL,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a task force within the Department of Accounting and General Services to plan and coordinate the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hawaii State Capitol.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies.

 

     Your Committees find that March 15, 2019, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Hawaii State Capitol.  The Hawaii State Capitol is a unique and architecturally significant structure and should be celebrated for its five decades in service.  A task force established to plan the celebration is a positive step toward a successful commemoration of the Hawaii State Capitol's fiftieth year.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding language to request the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives to select, of the three appointments they make to the task force, at least one member from their respective legislative bodies; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Higher Education and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 167, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 167, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations and Higher Education and the Arts,

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair