STAND. COM. REP. NO.  285-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2741

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2741 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY IN THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide greater access to the arts for the military community and to make a significant contribution to their quality of life in Hawaii by appropriating funds to establish an Arts in the Military Program (Program).

The Office of the Governor, Department of Defense, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and Office of Veterans' Services supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the specific sum appropriated for the Program to facilitate further discussion.

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts respectfully requests that it considering appropriating $200,000 for the establishment of the Program.

     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. 2741, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2741, H.D. 1, and be referred to your 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