STAND. COM. REP. NO. 120

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 243

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 243 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TECHNOLOGY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to transfer the Hawaii 3Ts school technology laboratories fund from the Department of Education to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committees find that the Hawaii 3Ts school technology laboratories fund may be more appropriately placed within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, rather than the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committees note that as this measure moves forward, the Committee on Ways and Means may wish to look into the possibility of placing the Hawaii 3Ts school technology laboratories fund under the authority of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation, rather than the Economic Development Alliance of Hawaii, Inc., because the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation may be a more appropriate fit for the Hawaii 3Ts school technology laboratories fund and is currently administratively attached to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 243 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Technology and the Arts,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair