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Joint committee advances several economic and cultural measures; performing‑arts surcharge deferred
Summary
The joint meeting of the Senate Water, Land, Culture and the Arts and Economic Development and Tourism committees advanced HB 2118 (transfer of cultural agencies) and multiple international and economic development bills with amendments, advanced several other measures and deferred a performing‑arts ticket surcharge after tax‑policy concerns.
A joint session of the Senate committees on Water, Land, Culture and the Arts and Economic Development and Tourism considered a cluster of bills affecting economic development, international relations and cultural agency placement.
HB 2118, which would transfer the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the King Kamehameha Celebration Commission from DAGS to DBEDT and move position funding, received support from the Kamehameha Celebration Commission’s…
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