Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2302, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide funds to the Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission to prepare for the 2006 Filipino Centennial Celebration.

The fifteen-member temporary Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission was formed pursuant to Act 159, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002, which charges the commission to do various things, including developing an overall program to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the arrival of the Filipino people in Hawaii, their significant contributions to the development of Hawaii, and the Filipino culture and heritage. The commission is also charged with developing, planning, and coordinating the program activities that will be scheduled throughout 2006. Although Act 159 did not appropriate any funds, it allowed the commission to seek grants from public and private sources and to accept donations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount from $1,000,000 to a blank amount.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2302, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2302, S.D. 2.