STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1106

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 825

      S.D. 2

      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 S.B. No. 825, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CULTURAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN HAWAII AND PUERTO RICO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a temporary Puerto Rican Exchange Commission to coordinate a cultural exchange program between Hawaii and Puerto Rico to honor and recognize the contributions of the Puerto Rican people and commemorate the arrival of Puerto Ricans to Hawaii.

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Placing the Commission within the Department of Accounting and General Services, rather than the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; and

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2015.

     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 S.B. No. 825, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 825, S.D. 2, 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