STAND. COM. REP. NO.  327

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1256

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1256 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve the management of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (Foundation) to ensure accountability, accessibility, and protection of its art and cultural resources by establishing and funding four full-time equivalent positions in the Foundation.

The Art Alliance supported this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services opposed this measure.  The Foundation and the Office of the Auditor provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to unspecified sums for the Foundation's four new full-time positions.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it:

     (1)  Consider appropriating $170,000 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $260,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 which, among other things, would provide adequate staffing to address the concerns raised in the November 2014 audit by the Office of the Auditor; and

     (2)  Evaluate and determine whether the four new positions should be funded by general funds or the Works of Art Special Fund.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1256, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1256, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair