STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2080

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 449

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 449, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Commission on the Thirteenth Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture to plan for the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture to be held in 2024, subject to certain expenditure reporting requirements.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Governor; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Hawai‘i Tourism Authority; Hawai‘i Lodging & Tourism Association; Commission on the 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture; and one individual.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Specifying that the appropriation is only for fiscal year 2023-2024 and for the Governor to plan and coordinate the Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture;

(2) Dissolving the temporary Commission on the Thirteenth Festival of Pacific Arts;

(3) Assigning the duties and responsibilities of the temporary Commission on the Thirteenth Festival of Pacific Arts to the Governor; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 449, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 449, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair