STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3362

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2741

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2741, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY IN THE ARTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified amount of general funds to the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to establish an Arts in the Military program.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Defense State Office of Veterans' Services and the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

 

     Your Committee finds that participation in the arts accelerates a returning military veteran's ability to transition to civilian life.  Your Committee finds that the 2015 federal budget bill includes language encouraging states to support military arts programs.  These funds will be used to obtain federal grant funding, which requires a one-to-one match with state funds, for initiatives involving arts in the military.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 H.B. No. 2741, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2741, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair