STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1502-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2205

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2205, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in its efforts to encourage artists to remain and work in Hawaii and to reaffirm the importance of artists to Hawaii by appropriating funds to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to award one-time fellowships to promising artists.

 

     The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to June 15, 1215, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2205, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2205, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your 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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MATTHEW S. LOPRESTI, Chair