STAND. COM. REP. NO.  60

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 499

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 499 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize a research program within the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on the stewardship of aquaculture and marine protected areas and to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds on a matching basis with federal funds.

 

     The Hawaii Aquaculture & Aquaponics Association, Pacific American Foundation, and an individual supported this measure.  The Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 499, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 499, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair