Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Science, Arts, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 376 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow resident artists to display their artwork in state buildings, offer it for sale, and to require the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to serve as agent for the sale.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the introducer of the measure. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Accounting and General Services and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

Your Committee finds that the State has a long-standing policy of supporting the display of art works within state buildings. Your Committee agrees that resident artists should be allowed the opportunity to not only display their works, but to sell them to persons who may view them on display in a state building. However, your Committee is concerned about the implementation of many of the provisions of this measure and thus is passing it with a defective date to allow for further discussion of the concept.

Your Committee has amended the measure by changing the effective date to October 25, 2081.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Science, Arts, and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 376, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 376, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.