STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1055

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 314
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred H.B. No. 314 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE AQUARIUM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal the deadline for
the transfer of the management of the State Aquarium from the
University of Hawaii to a non-profit corporation by allowing the
State Aquarium's current management with the Research Corporation
of the University of Hawaii and the University of Hawaii
Foundation to continue indefinitely.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
State Aquarium.

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii's plans
to relocate the State Aquarium to Kakaako will necessitate a
delay in the scheduled transfer of management.  Thus, because it
is unlikely that the Kakaako negotiations will be resolved by
June 30, 1999, the sunset date for the transfer of management
must be changed.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its
contents in its entirety and replacing it with the contents of
S.B. No. 1185, S.D. 2.  In so doing, your Committee has provided
for an extension of the recommended date of management transfer
to June 30, 2004, as opposed to deleting the sunset date
altogether.

 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 314, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 314,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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