STAND. COM. REP. NO. 279

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1495
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Education and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 1495
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A HAWAIIAN
     CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURIAL SCHOOL,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the
establishment of a Hawaiian cultural entrepreneurial school.

     Specifically, the measure appropriates $1,500,000 as a
grant-in-aid under Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the
Hui Ho`omau O Keaukaha Panaewa for the construction and operation
of a Hawaiian cultural entrepreneurial school.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and two concerned citizens.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the measure with
reservations.

     Your Committees find that the establishment of such a
Hawaiian cultural entrepreneurial school would teach Hawaiian
youth their cultural heritage and legacy, thereby inspiring and
motivating them to become productive members of their community.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by deleting the
specific dollar amount appropriated for the project.


 
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     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and Education and
Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1495, as
amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1495, S.D. 1, and be referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and Education
                                   and Technology,



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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair                COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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