STAND. COM. REP. NO. 405

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 678

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 678 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PRESERVATION OF HAWAII'S MOVING IMAGES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to support the activities of the ‘Ulu‘ulu:  Henry Ku‘ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai‘i (Moving Image Archive).

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; University of Hawai‘i West O‘ahu; Nā Maka o ka ‘Āina; and two individuals.

     Your Committees find that the Moving Image Archive is the State's official archive for moving images and is dedicated to the care, preservation, and digitization of film and videotape related to the history and culture of Hawaii.

     Your Committees note that the Moving Image Archive will need approximately $400,000 for assistance to carry out its mission.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the specific dollar amount to be appropriated by this measure; and

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

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 678, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 678, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Technology and the Arts,

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair