STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2603

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2110

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2110 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PRESERVATION OF HAWAII'S MOVING IMAGES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Designate Uluulu: The Henry Kuualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaii as the official state archive for moving images;

 

     (2)  Establish a special fund to be administered and expended by the University of Hawaii to support activities of the Archive; and

 

     (3)  Provide an income tax check-off for the benefit of the special fund.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from two private citizens.

 

     Your Committee finds that establishing a moving image archive will help ensure that Hawaii-related films, videotapes, and audiovisual materials will be preserved for future generations while concomitantly honoring Henry Giugni, the first United States Senate Sergeant-at-Arms of Polynesian descent.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the establishment of an income tax check-off for the benefit of the Archive's special fund;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2110, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2110, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair