STAND. COM. REP. NO 261

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1177

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1177 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the establishment of four full-time equivalent (4.0 FTE) positions at the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Arts Alliance and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State Office of the Auditor and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

     Your Committee finds that the State Foundation on Culture and The Arts currently lacks an adequate number of staff personnel to promptly and thoroughly respond to and complete requested services relating to works of art projects in new State construction.  This measure will resolve this issue by appropriating funds to hire additional staff.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the source of funds for the appropriation from general funds to the Works of Art Special Fund.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1177, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1177, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education and the Arts,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair