STAND. COM. REP. NO. 928-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1940

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1940, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds out of the Works of Art Special Fund to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts for the integration of works of art projects into several major capital improvement projects.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; Maui Arts & Cultural Center; and three individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

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 H.B. No. 1940, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1940, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair