STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2422

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2742

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2742 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PACIFIC-ASIA INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to initiate a revolutionary and innovative public and private partnership to be known as the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Defense; Global Partnerships Forum of the United Nations; Solutions Engineering Hawaii; Robertson Foundation for Government; and nine individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the State Office of Planning.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability provides an opportunity for a new generation of leaders to emerge who have the ability to learn from emerging trends and meet global challenges.  The Institute's multi-disciplinary and multi-sector approach to community resilience addresses a blind spot in the global discourse of how nations and peoples respond to a wave of disruptive change that permeates the world.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2742 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,

 

 

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair