STAND. COM. REP. NO. 354________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 965
                                     H.D. 1
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Business
Concerns and Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 965
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support the Small Business
Development Center (Center) by:

     (1)  Creating a separate line item in the legislative budget
          for the Center at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH-
          Hilo); and

     (2)  Appropriating funds for the operation of the Center and
          the operation of the Center's business research
          library.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
UH-Hilo Small Business Development Center, the Rural Economic
Transition Assistance-Hawaii Program, and the Business Research
Library, Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network.
Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the
Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:


 
 
 
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     (1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 to facilitate
          continued discussion on the financial aspects of the
          bill; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Economic Development and Business Concerns and
Higher Education that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
965, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 965, H.D. 1, and be
referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Economic
                                   Development and Business
                                   Concerns and Higher Education,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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DAVID MORIHARA, Chair              ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair