Bill Text: HI HB1164 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-12-10 - Carried over to 2022 Regular Session. [HB1164 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-HB1164-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1164

THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to the bernice pauahi bishop museum.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, officially designated as the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is the world's premier resource for Hawaiian and Pacific materials and houses the world's largest collection of Hawaiian and oceanic cultural artifacts and over twenty-two million biological specimens from Hawaii and the Pacific.

     The State has supported the museum's mission and operational activities through annual appropriations of general revenues, but these appropriations have decreased significantly over the preceding decade.

     The legislature finds that restoring the State's allocation to the museum is critical to ensure that the museum's collections are properly preserved, protected, and maintained, and that essential cultural and historical services are provided to the State.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2021-2022 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2022-2023 for the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, officially designated as the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History, to support the museum, including the hiring of necessary staff; provided that any funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be in addition to and shall not supplant any portion of the base budget of the department of budget and finance for the museum.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of budget and finance for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  Beginning with the 2025-2026 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the director of budget and finance shall include in its annual budget request line-item funding for the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, officially designated as the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2021.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum; Positions; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to support the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, including the hiring of necessary staff.

 

 

 

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