STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2426

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2620

       S.D. 1

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. 2620 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WORKS OF ART SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

     (1)  Authorize additional purposes for the expenditure of funds from the works of art special fund; and

     (2)  Provide that no new works of art may be acquired at any time when less than eighty percent of the State's inventory of works of art is on display.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from three individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Transportation; Department of Accounting and General Services; Department of Budget and Finance; Hawaii Government Employees Association; AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; American Institute of Architects; Na Mea Hawaii/Puuhonua Society/ii gallery; and thirty-seven individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from two individuals.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting its contents and inserting language to establish a new section in chapter 9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow works of art that are acquired using monies from the works of art special fund to be displayed and maintained in public buildings, including federal and county buildings; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to upon approval.

     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. 2620, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2620, 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