STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1044-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 2558
H.D. 2
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2018
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2558, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CREATIVE LAB HAWAII,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The
purpose of this measure is to diversify Hawaii's economy
through the development of innovation and knowledge-based industries by
appropriating funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development and
Tourism to:
(1) Enable Creative Lab Hawaii, a collaborative creative industry development accelerator program, to expand its programs and services to three neighbor islands and develop high school programs in partnership with the Department of Education; and
(2) Establish one full-time equivalent Creative Lab Hawaii project coordinator position.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making the appropriation and allocation of funds unspecified amounts, and the position(s) an unspecified number.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2558, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2558, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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