STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3500

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2533

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Government Operations and Labor, Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2533, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS FOR THE STATE ARCHIVES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate $500,000 to develop a State Archives Master Plan to address current and future needs, including expansion and creation of new collections processing and storage, administrative, public research, exhibition, and community engagement spaces.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, The Queen's Health Systems, Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, Native Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce, Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Museum, ‘Aha Pūnana Leo, Papa Ola Lōkahi, Mālama ‘Āina Foundation, Partners in Development Foundation, Honolulu Remote Operation Center/Family Search, Nā Hawai‘i ‘Imi Loa Hui Haumāna, and three individuals.

Your Committees find that with the increase in the number of partners and stakeholders in a State Archives Master Plan, there is extended interest in adding a potential information/visitors' center, museum, conference center, and even a preschool to form a Hawaiian History Learning Center at the planned facility. According to testimony received by your Committees, the Department of Accounting and General Services recommends, based on similar master plans, an appropriation of $1,000,000 to enable a wider study of this potential facility and to address all the concerns and ideas from stakeholders.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an appropriation amount of $1,000,000; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

Your Committees recommend that the State Archives inform the Committee on Ways and Means as to which proposed projects within the master plan are shovel-ready and can move forward immediately, if approved, and which require planning and design before construction.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Labor, Culture and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2533, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2533, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations and Labor, Culture and the Arts,

________________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

________________________________ LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair