STAND. COM. REP. NO. 292

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 608

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on International Affairs and the Arts and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 608 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY IN THE ARTS,"

beg 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 establish an arts in the military program.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State of Hawaii Department of Defense, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and one individual.

     Your Committees find that the State's large military community would benefit greatly from programing and partnerships with arts organizations.  Your Committees further find that after-school arts programs, healing arts programs, performances on military bases, and participation in visual arts programing would make a significant contribution to the quality of life of the State's military community.  Your Committees note that the recommended appropriation to establish the arts in the military program is $200,000.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on International Affairs and the Arts and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 608 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on International Affairs and the Arts and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

________________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair