STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2659

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2617

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2617, S.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 appropriate moneys to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts for the commission of works of art commemorating the late United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye and the late United States Representative Patsy T. Mink and to amend existing criteria for the commission of these works of art pursuant to Act 281, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013.

     Your Committee received no written comments on this measure.

     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, they should be honored and remembered through works of art that portray their life, vision, accomplishments, impact, and legacy.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2)  Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2617, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2617, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair