STAND. COM. REP. NO.  2150

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2547

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2547 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT ESTABLISHING A COMMISSION TO PLAN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Establish a temporary Fiftieth Anniversary of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Commission within the Office of the Governor to plan and coordinate the public celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; and

     (2)  Make an appropriation to the Office of the Governor to be used by the Fiftieth Anniversary of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Commission.

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

     Your Committee finds there are various program activities to be planned and scheduled to celebrate and commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.  This measure appropriates funds to allow a temporary Commission to coordinate the celebration.

     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. 2547 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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