Bill Text: HI HB2297 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Oahu-based Symphony Orchestra; State Foundation on Culture and the Arts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-23 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2297 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2297-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  656-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2297

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Culture & the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2297 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PERFORMING ARTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support an Oahu-based symphony orchestra by:

 

     (1)  Allowing no more than 3 percent of the principal as well as the income and capital gains from the State of Hawaii Endowment Fund to be used for operations in exigent circumstances;

 

     (2)  Providing for funding to be used for music education of children in schools; and

 

     (3)  Deleting requirements that an Oahu-based symphony orchestra obtain matching funds for appropriated funds distributed to the State of Hawaii Endowment Fund.

 

     The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts provided comments.

 

    

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Restricting the use of funds in the State of Hawaii endowment fund to a symphony or orchestra that existed prior to the enactment of this measure;

 

     (2)  Providing that funds used for youth education shall be for an existing youth symphony; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Culture & the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2297, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2297, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Culture & the Arts,

 

 

____________________________ JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair