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. 1452 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) seventy-fifth anniversary national convention.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from JACL and seven individuals.

The JACL is the nation's oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organization which addresses issues of discrimination targeted specifically at persons of Japanese ancestry residing in the United States. The JACL of Hawaii will host the biennial JACL national convention from August 10-14, 2004, at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel. The year 2004 is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the JACL. The total tax revenues expected to be generated from the convention is in excess of $2,000,000. This measure appropriates funds for a grant-in-aid to the JACL to prepare for the convention.

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. 1452 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.