STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1134-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.R. No. 96
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred
H.R. No. 96 entitled:

     "HOUSE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT
     HILO TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A SPACE CAMP
     ON THE BIG ISLAND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this resolution is to request the University
of Hawaii at Hilo to explore the possibility of developing a
space camp on the Big Island.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure
from the Hawaii Space Grant College, an Associate Professor at
the Honolulu Community College, and a number of private citizens.
The University of Hawaii at Hilo supported the intent of this
measure.

     Your Committee finds that the space camp on the Big Island
enriches the education of our island youths and adults in science
through space science activities, and serves as a marketable
techno-tourism program to attract intra-state and out of state
visitors to the Big Island.

     Your Committee finds that since 1991, Future Flight Hawaii
has conducted annual summer space science camps in this state
that has attracted over 3,000 students and adults.  It has also
provided workshops and courses for teachers as well as school
programs and community programs.

 
 
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     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this resolution by
encouraging that the Space Camp Program be expanded on the Big
Island.  Your Committee has also amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting a new Whereas clause that describes the
          Future Flight Hawaii's program;

     (2)  Adding the Department of Business, Economic Development
          and Tourism to the membership of agencies requested to
          explore the possibility of expanding a space camp
          program on the Big Island; 

     (3)  Changing the title of the resolution to read:
          "REQUESTING THE HAWAII SPACE GRANT COLLEGE IN
          CONJUNCTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI AT HILO, AND
          THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND
          TOURISM TO EXPAND THE SPACE CAMP PROGRAM ON THE BIG
          ISLAND";

     (4)  Incorporating the planned Mauna Kea Astronomy Education
          Center into the Space Camp planning process; and

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purpose of consistency.
 
     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report,
your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.R. No.
96, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the
Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 96,
H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Higher Education,



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                                   DAVID MORIHARA, Chair