STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1402
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 773
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirtieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2019
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 773, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to:
(1) Rename and codify the Creative Industries Division as the Office of Creative Film and Media Industries Hawaii (Office);
(2) Provide that the Hawaii Film Office and Arts and Culture Development Branch are agencies of the Office;
(3) Specify that the Office shall include certain employees;
(4) Require Hawaii Film Office employees to be transferred to the Office without any consequence to their employment benefits or status;
(6) Provide appropriations for positions within the Office and for other creative media related expenses.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the SAG-AFTRA Hawaii Local and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and University of Hawai‘i System.
Your Committee recognizes the economic and tourism benefits of Hawaii's film and creative industries, which represent fifty-four thousand entrepreneurs and businesses in the film, media, arts, culture, music, design, interactive, literary, broadcasting, and publishing industries. These industries, anchored by the film industry, are the foundation of Hawaii's creative economy.
Your Committee finds that the growth of entrepreneurial creative sector jobs in film and media are accelerating and the Creative Industries Division of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism has grown beyond the startup phase in 2003. To meet this growth of creative entrepreneurship, this measure will rename the Creative Industries Division as the Office of Creative Film and Media Industries Hawaii, and transfer the employees and resources of the Hawaii Film Office to the Office of Creative Film and Media Industries Hawaii, thereby strengthening Hawaii's creative economy.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Specifying that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism shall rename the Creative Industries Division as the Office of Creative, Film, and Media Industries Hawaii;
(2) Removing the establishment of positions and funding for these positions within the Office of Creative, Film, and Media Industries Hawaii;
(3) Changing the effective date to upon approval with the appropriations to take effect on July 1, 2019; and
(4) Making
technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and
consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 773, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 773, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism,
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________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair |
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