STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3305

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2152

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2152, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the five planetary surface initiatives and to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for the support and development of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems' research and development park.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from The National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; the University of Hawaii at Hilo; a former Hawaii Governor; an Apollo 11 Astronaut; a retired National Aeronautics and Space Administration officer; and JAMSS America, Inc.  The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii submitted written comments on the measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that support of the planetary initiatives will help to stimulate and diversify Hawaii's economy through the research and development of alternative products for cement, robotics, resource extraction, and dust removal technologies.  Your Committee further finds that the issuance of general obligation bonds to support an aerospace research and development park will accommodate demand and interest in Hawaii's landscape for the development and testing of planetary exploration technologies.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the specific amounts of the appropriations for the planetary surface systems initiatives to unspecified amounts to facilitate further discussion;

 

(2)  Changing the amount of the general obligation bonds authorized to be issued and the appropriations for the planning, design, and construction of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems' research and development park to unspecified amounts; and

 

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2152, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2152, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair