STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2254

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2897

S.D. 1

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. 2897 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HONOLULU BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL ARTS EXHIBITION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate monies for the Honolulu Biennial International Arts Exhibition.

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

Your Committee finds that the Honolulu Biennial International Arts Exhibition is a multi-site contemporary visual arts festival celebrating works by local Hawaii-based artists and Native Hawaiian artists alongside national and international artists from countries and continents linked by the Pacific Ocean. This measure will provide monies to support this exhibition.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing the prior appropriation amount of $400,000 with a blank amount.

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. 2897, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2897, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

________________________________

BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair