STAND. COM. REP. NO. 57-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2375
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred
H.B. No. 2375 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology's Marine
Bioproducts Engineering Center (MarBEC) at The University of
Hawaii at Manoa as follows:

     (1)  $300,000 to develop and establish a bioreactor
          development and training program; and 

     (2)  750,000 for cost sharing for the operation of a
          research vessel under construction.

     The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly testified in
support of this bill.  The University of Hawaii supported the
intent of this bill.

     Your committee adopted the recommendation of the University
and omitted the reference to MarBEC as the recipent of the cost
sharing funds, as ship operations are not a function of MarBEC.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 2375, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2375, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Higher Education,



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                                   DAVID MORIHARA, Chair