Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1216 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Korean Centennial Celebration Commission (Commission), which was established by Act 231, Session Laws of Hawaii 2000, in preparation for the celebration of the centennial anniversary of the arrival of the first Koreans to Hawaii.

Your Committee notes that Korean immigration to the United States started in Hawaii in 1903, and up until the late 1960s, Hawaii's Korean population was the largest Korean concentration in the United States. The upcoming centennial celebration will highlight the rich culture and proud heritage of Koreans in Hawaii and their contributions to the community.

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Korean American Bar Association of Hawaii, the Commission, and an individual testified in support of the measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1216, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1216, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.