STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2646

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1119

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1119 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WORKS OF ART SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Specify that 0.5 per cent, rather than one per cent, of state fund appropriations for capital improvements shall be transferred into the Works of Art Special Fund; and

(2) Limit the 0.5 per cent amount to appropriations designated for the construction of new state buildings, properties, or facilities.

Prior to the hearing on this measure your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which deletes the contents of the measure and inserts language to appropriate funds for the purpose of engaging the community and developing plans for a potential future memorial, monument, or other appropriate means to properly honor and respectfully recognize the memory of those who lost their lives or were impacted by the August 2023 Maui wildfires.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that an art installation is an effective method to memorialize significant moments and events in time. Monuments like the Holocaust Memorial, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Vietnam Veterans Memorial all recognize and commemorate the significant losses of life in the past. Your Committee recognizes the need to properly honor and respectfully recognize the memory of those who lost their lives or were

impacted by the August 2023 Maui wildfires. Accordingly, this measure will provide funds for a potential place where residents can remember and grieve as a community.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the

proposed S.D. 1.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1119, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1119, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair