STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2462

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3290

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 3290 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts' Artist Fellowship Program for the awarding of one-time fellowships to promising artists in the amount of not less than $25,000.

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

Your Committee finds that section 9-3(13), Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to establish an individual Artist Fellowship Program to encourage artists to remain and work in Hawaii and to reaffirm the importance of Hawaii's artists and their cultural and economic contributions to the State. The Artist Fellowship Program provides one-time fellowships to local individuals in the areas of visual and performing arts. Your Committee acknowledges the importance of recognizing and celebrating the contributions of the artistic endeavors of individuals to Hawaii's rich cultural landscape. Your Committee finds that the Artist Fellowship Program's fellowships create such recognition while providing the necessary financial support for the artists. This measure provides resources for the Artist Fellowship Program to grant fellowships, which in turn will contribute greatly to Hawaii's rich cultural landscape.

Your Committee is aware of this measure's possible effect on the State's obligation to adhere to the maintenance of effort requirements as a recipient of Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief funds under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2021 and the American Recovery Plan Act of 2021. Your Committee finds that this issue merits further consideration and respectfully requests that the matter be further examined by your Committee on Ways and Means.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3290 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair