STAND. COM. REP. NO. 838________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1352
                                     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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1352 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC
     RESEARCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $750,000 for the
cost-sharing effort of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the
operation of the AGOR-26 oceanographic research vessel.

     Several members of the public testified in support of this
bill.  The University of Hawaii testified in support of the
intent of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the
appropriation amount to $1 for purposes of further discussion.

     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.
1352, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1352, H.D. 1.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair