STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1609-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2583

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2583, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CAPITAL CULTURAL DISTRICT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support the Hawaii State Art Museum (Museum) by:

(1)  Establishing a temporary Hawaii Capital Cultural District Task Force to review the current operations of the Museum and its long-range plans for operations and growth; and

     (2)  Appropriating an unspecified sum for this purpose.

     The Department of Accounting and General Services and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts offered comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2583, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair