STAND. COM. REP. NO.  258-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1962

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development & Business and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1962 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MANUFACTURING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to continue to support the manufacturing industry in Hawaii by requiring the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism to conduct an economic development study on opportunities for automated manufacturing in the State and appropriating funds for the study.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism and Oahu County Committee Legislative Priorities Committee of the Democratic Party of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development & Business and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1962, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1962, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development & Business and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair