STAND. COM. REP. NO. 257-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2408
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Culture and the Arts, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2408 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 bill is to provide funds for the
performing arts and associated adminstrative expenses from the
works of art special fund.

     The Musicians Association of Hawaii and the Department of
Accounting and General Services supported this bill.  The State
Foundation on Culture and the Arts  supported the intent of this
bill. The Hawaii Consortium for the Arts and the Honolulu Theatre
for Youth commented on this bill.

     Your Committee finds that due to the State's poor economy,
the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts' (SFCA) general fund
appropriations have been reduced by nearly seventy-five percent
since fiscal year 1995-1996.  The State's decreasing support of
the SFCA has resulted in economic hardship, and in some cases,
the elimination of long-standing culture and the arts programs.
This bill will help supplement the SFCA's efforts to support the
performing arts.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:


 
 
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     (1)  Removing administrative expenses associated with the
          performing arts from the scope of the bill;

     (2)  Requiring the recipient of a grant awarded by the
          SFCA's commissioners to electronically capture the
          funded perfomance for future viewing and posterity; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes
          of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Culture and the Arts that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2408, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2408, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Culture and the
                                   Arts,



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                                   K. MARK TAKAI, Chair