STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3310

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2051

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2051, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS OF ART,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to modify the criteria for the works of art commemorating the late United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late United States Representative Patsy T. Mink to be commissioned pursuant to Act 281, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013.

Specifically, this measure repeals the requirements that:

(1)  The work of art commemorating Senator Inouye be three dimensional and installed in time for unveiling on the second anniversary of his death; and

(2)  The respective works of art include likenesses of Senator Inouye and Representative Mink.

This measure also amends the appropriation for both works of art for the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium and establishes the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts as the expending agency.

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

     Your Committee finds that removing unnecessary restrictions on the works of art commemorating United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye and United States Representative Patsy T. Mink will provide the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts with the freedom to select and commission the most appropriate works of art to honor their lives, visions, accomplishments, impacts, and legacies.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by repealing, rather than amending, section 2(e) of Act 281, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, since the amendments made in the measure, as received by your Committee, renders the remaining provisions in section 2(e) unnecessary.

     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 H.B. No. 2051, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2051, H.D. 1, 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