STAND. COM. REP. NO. 836

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1073

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1073 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to support the artist fellowship program, which awards fellowships to promising local artists.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the artist fellowship program provides one-time fellowships to promising local artists.  Your Committee notes that the artist fellowship program recognizes and honors Hawaii's exceptionally talented visual and performing artists and contributes greatly to the State's rich cultural landscape.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation from $200,000 to an unspecified amount; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1073, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1073, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair