STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2255

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2205

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2205 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 Artist Fellowship Program for the awarding of one-time fellowships to promising artists in the amount of not less than $25,000.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i.

Your Committee finds that section 9-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to "[E]stablish an individual artist fellowship program to encourage artists to remain and work in Hawaii and to reaffirm the importance of Hawaii's artists and their cultural and economic contributions". The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Artist Fellowship Program requires funding through appropriations to fulfill its established purpose. This measure will provide resources for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to award fellowships through the Artist Fellowship Program.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2205 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair