THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	15
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

Requesting the state foundation on culture and the arts to build and erect a statue of president barack obama.

WHEREAS, Barack Hussein Obama was born to Barack Obama, Sr., and Ann Dunham on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and spent his formative years attending high school at Punahou School on the island of Oahu; and

WHEREAS, after being elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, Barack Obama drafted legislation on ethics and worked to expand health care services and early childhood education programs for low-income families; and

WHEREAS, in 2005, Barack Obama was sworn in as a United States senator representing Illinois, and was only the third African American to hold a United States Senate seat since Reconstruction; and

WHEREAS, on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America; and

WHEREAS, under President Obama's leadership, the United States economy thrived, the national deficit shrank by two-thirds, the national unemployment rate dropped below 5.3 percent, and the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed, allowing more than sixteen million Americans to have affordable and quality health care; and

WHEREAS, President Obama is one of a select group of individuals of African American heritage who have played integral roles in the history of Hawaii, including Anthony D. Allen, Betsey Stockton, Thomas McCants Stewart, Alice Ball, Helene Hale, and William F. Crockett; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2018, that the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts is requested to build and erect a statue of President Barack Obama within the State Capitol district; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Executive Director of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Board of Commissioners of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; President Barack Obama; Statue