Bill Text: HI SB294 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-22 - Referred to LCA, WAM. [SB294 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB294-Introduced.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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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, housing the world's largest collection of Hawaiian and oceanic cultural artifacts and over twenty-two million biological specimens from Hawai‘i 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 for ensuring that the Museum's collections are properly preserved, protected, and maintained, and that the 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 $1,000,000 for the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, officially designated as the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History, for fiscal year 2019-2020, and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 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 2023-2024 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, 2019.
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Report Title:
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum; Positions; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds to support the work of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
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