STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2318

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2617

       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 S.B. No. 2617 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:

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

     (2)  Amend the appropriation amount to an adequate sum for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium; and

     (3)  Change the expending agency from the Department of Accounting and General Services to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that the creation of permanent works of art to tribute to the late United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late United States Representative Patsy T. Mink are in the early design stages of development.  Your Committee further finds that the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts appears to be better suited for overseeing these tasks and since the works of art are only in their infancy of the design stage, a sufficient appropriation amount is not yet known.

     Your Committee requests that if your Committee on Ways and Means decides to hold a hearing on this measure, that it look further into determining a sufficient amount to appropriate to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to adequately provide a tribute to Senator Daniel K. Inouye and Representative Patsy T. Mink in fulfilling the requirements of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure accordingly by removing the appropriation amount of "an adequate sum" and replacing it with an unspecified amount.

     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 S.B. No. 2617, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2617, 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