STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2896

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2051

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2051, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC WORKS OF ART,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the criteria for the works of art to be commissioned to commemorate the late United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late United States Representative Patsy T. Mink.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Department of Accounting and General Services, and United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO.

     Your Committee finds that the late United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late United States Representative Patsy T. Mink were influential leaders in the development and history of Hawaii and therefore should be honored and remembered through works of art that portray their life, vision, accomplishments, impact, and legacy.

     Your Committee notes that the companion to this measure, S.B. No. 2617, S.D. 2, Regular Session of 2014, which was previously passed by the Senate, amends the requirement that the work of art commemorating Daniel K. Inouye be permanently installed by December 17, 2014, and amends the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting the contents of S.B. 2617, S.D. 2, a substantively similar measure, which:

     (1)  Amends the criteria for the works of art to be commissioned to honor the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late United States Representative Patsy T. Mink;

     (2)  Deletes the requirement that the work of art portraying Senator Daniel K. Inouye be installed in time for unveiling on December 17, 2014; and

     (3)  Amends the appropriation for both works of art to an unspecified amount for the 2013-2014 fiscal biennium.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2051, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2051, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair