Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 512 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enhance the Capitol District in Honolulu as a destination area for visitors by expanding the purposes of the Works of Art Special Fund to include improvements to the State Art Museum in the No. 1 Capitol District Building for ancillary programs and activities. This bill also exempts the State Art Museum from the requirements of giving priority to registered blind or visually handicapped persons in the operation of vending facilities in public buildings.

For purposes of the public hearing, your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version that is similar to the original bill except that it deletes the provision exempting the State Art Museum from the requirements of the blind vender program.

Testimony in support of the proposed draft was submitted by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, the Washington Place Foundation, the Hawaii Alliance for Arts Education, the American Institute of Architects, and the Louis Pohl Estate.

The Hawaii Association of the Blind and the State Committee of Blind Vendors testified in opposition to the original bill.

Your Committee has amended the proposed draft of the bill by:

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. 512, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 512, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.