STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2628

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2399

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

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. 2399, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO URBAN ART,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to create a pilot program for the creation of urban art under the direction of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

 

     Your Committee finds that graffiti is a problem throughout most communities in the State and despite efforts to stop it, the problem persists.  Your Committee further finds that if individuals are given an opportunity to create certain types of urban art on public property, these individuals may be less likely to create graffiti illegally.  Others may also be less inclined to place graffiti over works of urban art.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

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

 

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

 

     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. 2399, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2399, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair