STAND. COM. REP. NO. 873-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2455

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2455, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM FOR THE 2018 GANNENMONO CELEBRATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to celebrate the one-hundred fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first group of organized Japanese immigrants in Hawaii by making an emergency appropriation to the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism for the 2018 Gannenmono Celebration.

The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Kizuna Hawai‘i, Gannenmono Celebration Committee, and a concerned individual supported this measure. A concerned individual provided comments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2455, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair