STAND. COM. REP. NO.  104

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 800

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. 800 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 transfer administrative placement and certain management functions of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism's Creative Industries Division from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

A number of concerned individuals testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts commented on this bill.

     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. 800 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Economic Development & Business.

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