STAND. COM. REP. NO.  593

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1225

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1225 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HAWAII STATE CAPITOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to finance celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Hawaii State Capitol.

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies supported this measure.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $250,000 to plan and coordinate the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Hawaii State Capitol.

     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. 1225, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1225, 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