STAND. COM. REP. NO.199

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1278

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1278 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MAUI ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to support the Maui Arts and Cultural Center (MACC) and its work in arts education with Maui Community College and the Department of Education (DOE).

The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) submitted testimony in support of the bill with reservations, as SFCA indicated that funding for MACC's operations should not in any way further diminish support to the SFCA Grants Program.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the amount of the appropriation to $1 to enable more flexibility in legislative deliberations over the fiscal impact of the bill in the House Committee on Finance; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1278, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1278, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism and Culture,

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JERRY CHANG, Chair