STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1022-26

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2026

RE: H.B. No. 2117

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2117, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ARTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Mapping of Arts Data for Education Task Force to conduct a study and develop a comprehensive, publicly available statewide database and geographic information systems map of arts entities and programs engaged in arts and arts education.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony; Hawaiʻi Community Foundation; Le Jardin Academy; Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra; Hawaiʻi Arts Alliance; Pacific Academy of Music; Hawaiʻi Data Collaborative; and numerous individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the various representatives, including the chairperson, of the task force shall be invited, rather than required, to serve on the task force.

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. 2117, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2117, H.D. 2.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair