STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2248

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3058
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.B. No. 3058 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY-BASED ECONOMIC
     DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to
encourage and support community-based physical improvements that
are the result of comprehensive region planning initiatives.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawai`i Alliance for Community-Based
Economic Development, Hawai`i Small Business Development Center
Network, Hilo Hamakua Community Development Corporation, Hamakua
District Development Council, Empower O`ahu, and Pacific Business
Insights, Inc.

     Your Committee finds that communities throughout Hawaii have
been building their capacity as economic development
practitioners as a means of contributing to the State's
revitalization efforts.  In the past three years, community-based
organizations receiving support from this program have helped to
create 331 jobs and create or sustain 650 businesses.

     Your Committee is supportive of this program of community-
based initiatives and decision making.  Your Committee has

 
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amended this measure to make technical amendments for the
purposes of clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 3058, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3058,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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