Report Title:

Appropriation; Global Youth Center

 

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to establish a Global Youth Center in Hawaii. (HB540 HD1)

 

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

540

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

making an appropriation for a global youth center in hawaii.

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  World peace is a major collaborative goal, and our youth are the key to attaining world peace, sustainability, and productivity for future generations.  Hawaii's location at the center of the Pacific Rim, its diverse culture, and its many shared languages provide an excellent strategic forum for meetings and exchanges, as demonstrated by the Millennium Youth People's Congress that was held in Hawaii in October 1999.

     The creation of a Global Youth Center in Hawaii presents a unique opportunity for generating a truly international framework through which youth from around the world could become actively engaged in constructing a better future.  It offers these youth an opportunity to identify the major global issues that need to be addressed.  It will also train these future leaders to communicate their concerns more effectively so that they can help shape the debate over issues that will directly affect them.

     The Global Youth Center will develop educational programs, conduct original research, and link diverse people and organizations to address some of the problems facing the world.  The Global Youth Center will work in conjunction with Hawaii educational, political, and business leaders, and representatives at the East-West Center, the International Student/Young Pugwash, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.  It will also serve as a clearinghouse for information on youth policy activities internationally.

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to establish a Global Youth Center in Hawaii.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $140,040 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for the establishment of a Global Youth Center in Hawaii.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the East-West Center through the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.