STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1048-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2246

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. 2246, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Transfer the awarding and administration of certain cultural grants from the Hawaii Tourism Authority to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts;

(2) Establish a standing selection committee within the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to review and award cultural grants; and

(3) Appropriate funds for grant administrator positions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the number of grant administration positions to an unspecified number.

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. 2246, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2246, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair