STAND. COM. REP. NO.  958

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   S.B. No. 116

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 116, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen, nurture, and support Hawaiian culture by authorizing the Hawaii Tourism Authority to support traditional Hawaiian arts and cultural activities, including Hawaiian music, dance, and arts and crafts.

 

     The Hawaii Tourism Authority supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the word "pre-contact" from the reference to "traditional pre-contact Hawaiian arts and culture".  The word "pre-contact" in regards to arts and cultural activities may limit the bill's scope because it could be defined as prior to western contact or prior to the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by European explorers.  Deleting the "pre-contact" reference will ensure the support and promotion of all traditional Hawaiian arts and cultural activities, including forms of dance and music such as modern hula, sitting hula, steel guitar, slack key, choral singing, and others.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 116, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 116, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Culture & the Arts.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOM BROWER, Chair