STAND. COM. REP. NO.  655-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 1556

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Culture & the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1556, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for capital improvements in the 47th representative district relating to cultural practices.

Mu‘olaulani, Hālau Hula Ka No‘eau; Native Books, Na Mea Hawaii; Kāko‘o ‘Oiwi; Artspace; and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  Pa‘i Foundation and the Kaneohe Canoe Club provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Requiring the recipient organizations or departments to provide partial matching funds for funds received through these capital improvement project appropriations; and

(2)  Updating figures for the Kāko‘o ‘Oiwi and Kaneohe Canoe Club projects.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Culture & the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1556, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1556, H.D. 2, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Culture & the Arts,

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JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair