STAND. COM. REP. NO. 591

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1241
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources, to
which was referred H.B. No. 1241 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PACON
     INTERNATIONAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
continued support of the Pacific Congress on Marine Science and
Technology (PACON), International. 

     PACON International is a non-for-profit organization
established in Honolulu in 1982 with the goal of disseminating
the latest information on marine science and technology among
marine educators, scientists, technologists, and policy decision-
makers in the Pacific Basin. To achieve this goal, PACON
International holds major conferences and smaller symposia each
year.  The next major conference for PACON International will be
held in Hawaii in the year 2000.

     Chapters of PACON International have been established in
Australia, China, Japan, Korea, India, Russia, Philippines, and
throughout the continental United States.  Chapters are currently
being formed in Far Eastern Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, and
Vietnam.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from PACON International and a concerned individual.


 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the
appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose of continuing
discussion of the bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1241, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1241, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Ocean Recreation
                                   and Marine Resources,



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                                   Roy M. Takumi, Chair