STAND. COM. REP. NO. 711

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1334

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1334, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN MUSIC AND DANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Museum for Hawaiian Music and Dance.

     Specifically, the measure:

     (1)  Authorizes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, in coordination with the Department of Accounting and General Services, to contract with a nonprofit entity to develop, operate, and manage the museum;

     (2)  Appropriates funds from the State's general revenues to finance the design and environmental assessment of the museum; and

     (3)  Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to finance the construction of the museum and ancillary facilities.

     Your Committee finds that the music, dance, and art representative of Hawaiian culture and heritage should be preserved for the benefit of the people of Hawaii, as well as the people of the world who visit Hawaii.  Your Committee believes that investment in this project will benefit the State for generations to come.  Your Committee also recognizes that concerns have been raised that the troubled economic conditions that Hawaii currently faces make this a difficult time to consider large expenditures of general funds.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Removing the authorization to issue general obligation bonds;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2090, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

     (3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     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. 1334, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1334, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair