Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology and Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 967 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a Museum of Hawaiian Music and Dance Committee to determine the scope and role of such a museum in the community, the appropriate type of institution that should be established, the location, possible financing mechanisms, and an initial business plan.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Tourism Authority, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the Waikiki Improvement Association. Your Committees also received comments from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Your Committees find that Hawaiian music and dance are unique cultural assets, and that a museum dedicated to their history and memorabilia will preserve, celebrate, and perpetuate the Hawaiian culture. Your Committees further find that the Hawaiian culture and spirit of aloha are vital in distinguishing Hawaii from all other visitor destinations. Your Committees find that this measure will cultivate the information necessary to establish a Museum of Hawaiian Music and Dance.

Your Committees have amended this measure to designate the Executive Director of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, or the Executive Director's designated representative, as chair of the Museum of Hawaiian Music and Dance Committee, and to include a provision that the Hawaii Tourism Authority shall provide administrative support to the committee.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology and Tourism that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 967, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 967, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.