STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1518-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 172

      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 Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts and Economic Development & Business, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 172 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HAWAII SISTER-STATE COMMITTEE AND DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM TO EVALUATE THE SISTER-STATE PROGRAM AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE THE CAPACITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE EFFORTS TO PROMOTE MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Hawaii Sister-State Committee and DBEDT to evaluate the Sister-State program and make recommendations to improve the capacity and sustainability efforts to promote mutually beneficial international relationships.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, & Tourism testified in support.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by adding the House Committee on Economic Development & Business and the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology as consulting entities during the evaluation report process.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts and Economic Development & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 172,  as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 172, H.D. 1.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts and Economic Development & Business,

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

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MATTHEW S. LOPRESTI, Chair