STAND. COM. REP. NO. 587

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1273

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1273, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a University of Hawaii system-wide academy for creative media that shall award certificates and degrees emphasizing narrative storytelling through a unique program in indigenous filmmaking.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and one concerned individual.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the University of Hawaii System.

 

     Your Committee finds that the academy for creative media was formally approved by the University of Hawaii Board of Regents in 2003 to promote the development of creative media and a new industry in the State.  This measure will codify the successful academy for creative media Manoa program, which has been teaching the art of digital media and filmmaking for the past decade.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the term "board" refers to the Board of Regents; and

 

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

 

     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. 1273, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1273, 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