Bill Text: HI SB1273 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Economic Development; Academy for Creative Media; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-14 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on HED/EDB with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) McKelvey, Mizuno excused (2). [SB1273 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1273-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  949

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1273

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1273, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to continue to promote the development of creative media as an industry in Hawaii by:

 

     (1)  Establishing a University of Hawaii system-wide Academy for Creative Media that will confer certificates and degrees emphasizing narrative storytelling, theories, skills, and applications across multiple platforms of digital media through a unique program in indigenous filmmaking; and

 

     (2)  Appropriating an unspecified amount of funds for the Academy for Creative Media. 

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and University of Hawaii supported the intent of this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1273, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Higher Education and Economic Development & Business.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

 

 

		____________________________ K. MARK TAKAI, Chair