STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1207

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 1073

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 1073, S.D. 1, 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 to promote the arts in Hawaii by appropriating funds to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to support the artist fellowship program, which awards one-time fellowships to promising local artists.

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2017.

     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. 1073, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1073, S.D. 1, 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