STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 743-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2186

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2186, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FILIPINO CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission (Commission) for events commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Hawaii of the first immigrants from the Philippines.

The Commission, Filipino Community Center, Inc., Congress of Visayan Organizations, and several individuals supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the appropriation amount to $1 to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2186, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2186, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair