STAND. COM. REP. NO.  986

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1547

      H.D. 3

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1547, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support international relations in Hawaii by:

 

     (1)  Establishing a Legislative Protocol Fund (Fund);

 

     (2)  Clarifying the purposes of the Office of International Affairs (Office) and appropriating funds to hire personnel for the Office; and

 

     (3)  Appropriating funds to bring the Second International Symposium on Freeway and Tollway Operations to Hawaii in 2009 and to begin preliminary planning for the conference.

 

     The Governor, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, University of Hawaii at Manoa Center for Chinese Studies, East-West Center, Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Papa Ola Lokahi, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The University of Hawaii provided comments.

 


     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to an unspecified amount to encourage further discussion;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1547, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1547, H.D. 3.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair