STAND. COM. REP. NO. 911-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2302

S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Culture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2302, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FILIPINO CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission (Commission) for events commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Hawaii of the first immigrants from the Philippines.

The Filipino Centennial Celebration Commission, Congress of Visayan Organizations, Hawaii Chapter of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association, and several concerned individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure. The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts supported the intent of this measure.

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 S.B. No. 2302, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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