STAND. COM. REP. NO. 263

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 679

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 679 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND ARTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Accounting and General Services for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to support the Artists in the Schools program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

 

     Your Committee finds all public schools, including charter schools, are eligible to apply to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts for grants for artist residencies.  The Artists in the Schools program increases opportunities for arts education and experiences, as well as using art form to support other core curriculum areas, such as language arts, math, social studies, and science.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the appropriations that were to alleviate the impact of previous reductions in general fund appropriations to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and to the educational efforts in cultural preservation through partnerships with the Edith Kanakaole Foundation, University of Hawaii Center for Biographical Research, PBS Hawaii, and the Maui Arts and Cultural Center.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Technology and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 679, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 679, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Technology and the Arts,

 

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair