STAND. COM. REP. NO.  113

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 750

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 750 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII ISLAND TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE INSTITUTE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage the development of high technology innovation in the State by establishing the Hawaii Island Technology Exchange Institute at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.

 

     The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Hawaii Island Community Advisory Committee and a concerned individual supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii at Hilo provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2525, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 


     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. 750, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 750, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair