STAND. COM. REP. NO. 307

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 201
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources and
Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 201 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE BLUE
     WATER MARINE LABORATORY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
continued support of the Blue Water Marine Laboratory program.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Waikiki Aquarium, the University of Hawaii's
Marine Option Program, former students and coordinators of the
Blue Water Marine Laboratory program, and high school students
interested in the program.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose
          of continuing discussion of the bill;

     (2)  Including the budget request of the Marine Option
          Program; and 

     (3)  Changing the expending agency from the Department of
          Education to the University of Hawaii.

     Your Committees strongly recommends funding the above marine
education programs.

 
 
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     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources and Higher
Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 201, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as H.B. No. 201, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Ocean Recreation
                                   and Marine Resources and
                                   Higher Education,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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DAVID MORIHARA, Chair              ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair