STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3189

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 52

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Government Operations, to which was referred S.R. No. 52 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO PLAN AND COORDINATE THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HAWAII STATE CAPITOL,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a task force to plan and coordinate the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hawaii State Capitol.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies.

     Your Committees find that after nearly fifty years since its construction, the Hawaii State Capitol remains a unique and architecturally significant structure among the fifty state capitols of the United States of America.  Your Committees further find that this measure begins a process of planning for recognizing and celebrating the importance of the Hawaii State Capitol to the State of Hawaii.

     Your Committees note that 2019 will mark the sixtieth anniversary of Hawaii's statehood.  Your Committees therefore suggest that next year this body consider enacting a measure similar to the present measure in order to plan and coordinate a celebration for the sixtieth anniversary of Hawaii's statehood.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 52 and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and the Arts and Government Operations,

________________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

________________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair