Bill Text: HI SB2143 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; Staff Funding

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-30 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2143 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2143-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  743-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2143

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2143, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to preserve the fiscal stability of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) by allowing moneys from the Works of Art Special Fund (Fund) to finance the personnel costs of administrative, grants, and contracts personnel of SFCA for a three-year period.  This bill also:

 

     (1)  Requires the Comptroller and SFCA Executive Director to submit annual reports regarding the calculation and setting aside of the one percent of capital improvement appropriations for deposit into the Fund; and

 

     (2)  Repeals the requirement that the Comptroller provide information to agencies receiving capital improvement appropriations regarding items that shall be excluded from the one percent amount.

 

     The SFCA and a concerned individual offered comments.
     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Fund shall pay for the salary, wage, and fringe benefit costs of the SFCA Executive Director and any other SFCA employee;

 

     (2)  Restoring the Comptroller's:

 

          (A)  Input in selection of artists and the placement and acceptance of works of art; and

 

          (B)  Mandate to provide information to an agency receiving a capital improvement appropriation as to which construction cost items are excluded from the one percent of the appropriation that is required to be transferred to the Fund;

 

     (3)  Deleting the requirement that the Comptroller and SFCA Executive Director shall annually report to the Legislature on information relating to the one percent requirement;

 

     (4)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion;

 

     (5)  Extending the repeal date from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2015; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2143, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2143, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ JAMES KUNANE TOKIOKA, Acting Chair and Vice Chair