STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1109

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 912

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Business and Economic Development, to which was referred H.B. No. 912, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network to advance its work of helping small businesses grow through management-force training.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network.

Your Committee finds that this measure supports the sustainability, growth, and development of small businesses in Hawaii by funding the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network, which assists over one thousand members of the small business community through business training, counseling, advocacy, and research activities each year. Your Committee also notes that the companion to this measure, S.B. No. 987, was heard and approved by the Committee, with amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Business and Economic Development that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 912, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Business and Economic Development,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair