STAND. COM. REP. NO. 239

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1281

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1281 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR KAHILU THEATRE IN WAIMEA, HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for operating expenses of the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea, Hawaii, in the form of a grant from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Waimea Middle Public Conversion Charter School, and numerous individuals.

     Your Committee finds that funding for the Kahilu Theatre was discontinued last year due to the economic recession, forcing management to close its doors.  The Kahilu Theatre is highly valued by the community since it functioned as both a presenter of professional performing arts events, including music, dance, and theatre, and as a producing organization for youth productions.  The arts and music education provided through the Kahilu Theatre is very important to the local public school children because there are insufficient arts and music education opportunities in their schools.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the specific amount of the appropriation; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1281, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1281, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair