Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism & Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 915 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support infrastructure for the arts in Hawaii by authorizing the issuance of $300,000 in general obligation (GO) bonds for renovations to the first floor entrance lobby of the State Art Gallery.

The Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by clarifying its intent to appropriate proceeds from the GO bond issuance for the purposes specified in the bill. Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments have been made for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism & Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 915, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 915, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.