STAND. COM. REP. NO. 778-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2408
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2408, H.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 bill is to provide funding for
performing arts by stipulating that up to $300,000 a year under
the Works of Art Special Fund (Fund) be used for performing arts,
as approved by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
(SFCA) Commissioner, provided that the recipients of these funds
electronically capture their performance on videotape or by other
similar means.

     The Honolulu Symphony, the Department of Accounting and
General Services, and the Korean American Women's Club of Hawaii
testified in support of this measure.  SFCA testified in support
of the measure with reservations.  The Hawaii Consortium for the
Arts submitted comments on the measure.  An individual testified
in opposition to the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the provision that moneys for performing arts
          under the Fund are contingent on recipients
          electronically capturing their performance on videotape
          or by other similar means; and


 
 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2408, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2408, H.D.
2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair