Bill Text: HI SB998 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Washington Place

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-22 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and McKelvey, Takumi, Woodson excused (3). [SB998 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB998-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1157

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 998

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

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. 998, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WASHINGTON PLACE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect and preserve the historic residence known as Washington Place, a center of social and political life in the Hawaiian Islands for over a century.  Specifically, this bill:

 

     (1)  Statutorily establishes the Department of Accounting and General Services as the agency responsible for preserving and protecting Washington Place, including the grounds, and the historic residence situated on its premises;

 

     (2)  Establishes the Washington Place Trust Fund to pay for the administration, operation, management, and maintenance of Washington Place;

 

     (3)  Prohibits moneys in the Washington Place Trust Fund to be transferred to the general fund or any other fund in the State treasury; and

 

     (4)  Provides that unencumbered and unexpended moneys remaining in the Washington Place Trust Fund in excess of an unspecified amount shall lapse to the general fund on June 30 of each year.   

 

     The Department of Accounting and General Services testified in support of this measure.   

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the provision that excess unencumbered or unexpended moneys from the Washington Place Trust Fund lapse to the general fund;

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date from July 1, 2050, to upon approval; and

 

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

 

     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. 998, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 998, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ K. MARK TAKAI, Chair