STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3285

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.R. No. 15

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.R. No. 15 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS TO BUILD AND ERECT A STATUE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to build and erect a statue of President Barack Obama.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that Barack Obama was born, raised, and received primary and secondary education in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University and receiving his doctorate of jurisprudence from Harvard University, he worked as a civil rights attorney and later professor of constitutional law in Chicago, Illinois. He entered politics and was elected to the United States Senate and later to the office of President of the United States. Your Committee finds that in light of President Obama's historic accomplishments, it is appropriate to commemorate him in Hawaii. However, your Committee notes that the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts has an established procedure and management policy for all new works of art.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Removing language requesting the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to build and erect a statue of President Barack Obama and inserting language requesting the Foundation to commission a monument to President Barack Obama by forming an art advisory committee and following the Foundation's collection management policy for new works of art; and

(2) Making a conforming amendment to the title.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 15, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 15, S.D. 1.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair