STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1321

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.R. No. 137

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.R. No. 137 entitled:

"HOUSE RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES A TASK FORCE TO PLAN AND COORDINATE THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HAWAII STATE CAPITOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish, within the Department of Accounting and General Services, a task force to plan and coordinate the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hawaii State Capitol.

The Department of Accounting and General Services and State Foundation on Culture and the Arts supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the commencement date for the series of celebratory and commemorative events from July 1, 2016, to January 1, 2017; and

     (2)  Deleting language relating to nonapplicability of public agency meetings and records law and State employee standards of conduct law.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 137, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 137, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair