Bill Text: HI SB2143 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
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
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2627
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2143
S.D. 2
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2143, S.D. 1, 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 measure is to authorize funds from the works of art special fund to be used for an executive director and other staff positions of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.
This measure also requires the Comptroller and the Executive Director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to submit an annual report to the Governor and Legislature that details contributions to the works of art special fund that each state agency is required to make.
Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance. A concerned individual submitted comments on this measure. The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts has lost a significant number of staff positions in the last few years as a result of the State's budget shortfall. Your Committee also finds that the Foundation's loss of staff reduces the Foundation's ability to preserve the arts and to serve the art community. In an effort to preserve the State's commitment to culture and the arts, your Committee believes that the works of art special fund should be used temporarily to defray the costs of administrative positions at the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts to preserve the Foundation's level of service to the State.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the annual reports regarding state appropriations transferred to the works of art special fund is to be submitted no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session;
(2) Changing the sunset date of the measure to June 30, 2013; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
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 S.B. No. 2143, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2143, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair |
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