STAND. COM. REP. NO.508

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 543

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 543 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO RECRUIT INVESTMENT FROM PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES IN SUPPORT OF COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to establish a program to attract investment from Pacific Rim countries and to create a position in the community-based economic development program of the department of business, economic development, and tourism.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

Your Committee amended this measure by emphasizing that this measure is related to economic development and changing the position in the community-based economic development program from civil service exempt to contracted.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 543, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 543, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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ROD TAM, Chair