STAND. COM. REP. 525

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1650

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1650 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONGRESSWOMAN PATSY T. MINK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) to commission a work of art honoring the late Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink, to be funded by the Works of Art Special Fund (Special Fund).

The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Democratic Party of Hawaii, a councilmember of the Maui County Council, Business and Professional Women/Hawaii, Community Alliance on Prisons, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, and six concerned citizens supported this bill. The SFCA supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee supports efforts to honor the accomplishments of the late Congresswoman Patsy T. Mink.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the project from a "work of art" to a "painted portrait";

(2) Specifying that the painted portrait is to be placed at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Women's Center;

(3) Establishing the amount to be appropriated out of the Special Fund;

(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2003; and

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

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. 1650, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1650, 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 L. CHANG, Chair