STAND. COM. REP. NO. 510

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: H.B. No. 1218

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism & International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1218 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to review and analyze Program ID number AGS881 of the Executive Branch's Operating Budget for fiscal biennium 2019-2021, including expending agencies, appropriation sums, means of financing, and position ceilings, which ID number is under the purview of your Committee.

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Increasing the aggregate special fund ceiling to $5,500,000 for each year of fiscal biennium 2019-2021 by authorizing the additional expenditure of $991,777, from the Works of Art Special Fund; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2099, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism & International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1218, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1218, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism & International Affairs,

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RICHARD H.K. ONISHI, Chair