STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2300

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2763

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2763 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KING KAMEHAMEHA CELEBRATION COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the use of general fund monies to fund salaries for certain employees of the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Waimanalo Hawaiian Homes Association, and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission is composed of volunteer commissioners who arrange annual celebrations to commemorate King Kamehameha I.  Under existing law, the commission is authorized to appoint an arts program specialist and part-time clerk typist, whose salaries are provided through fees, public contributions, and private donations.  Your Committee supports this measure, as it would expand the funding sources for salaries for these positions and facilitate the work of the commission.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2763 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs,

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair