STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3394

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 57

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 57, S.D. 1, entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE ADMINISTRATIVE PLACEMENT OF THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to promote consideration of changes to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

     Specifically, this measure establishes a working group to recommend:

     (1)  Administrative placement of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts;

     (2)  Methods for leveraging financing to support Hawaii's cultural sector and to raise the grants funding capacity;

     (3)  A sustainable funding model;

     (4)  Changes to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and its infrastructure; and

     (5)  Methods of collaborating with stakeholders.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii's art and cultural relevancy will be enhanced by transferring the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts from the Department of Accounting and General Services to another agency that will create better opportunities for growth and expansion.  Your Committee further finds that requesting the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to establish the working group and issue the report will ensure that its Commissioners and Executive Director will support the working group's recommendations.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Requesting the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, instead of the Department of Accounting and General Services, to establish the working group and submit a report to the Legislature;

(2)  Amending the title of the measure to reflect the change in agency responsible for establishing the working group;

(3)  Setting the composition of the working group at a maximum of seven members; and

(4)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 57, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 57, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair