STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2255

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3157
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Education and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 3157
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII INTERNATIONAL
     CULTURAL CENTER,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a Hawaii
International Cultural Center.

     The measure accomplishes this purpose by authorizing the
Hawaii Community Development Authority to lease eight acres of
land to the Hawaiian Chinese Multicultural Museum and Archives
for a $1 a year for forty years.  The bill also authorizes the
issuance of $20,000,000 in general obligation bonds and
appropriates that amount to construct the center.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from a
private citizen.  The Department of Budget and Finance and the
Hawaii Community Development Authority submitted comments.

     Your Committees find that nearly half of all visitors to the
islands come to Hawaii to experience its diverse cultures, and
the bonding of its multiethnic community.  Your Committees also
find that in order to unify and solidify this bond, it is
important to create a gathering place for discussion, mutual
cooperation and understanding, and exhibitions that document the
individual ethnic groups' history, culture, and heritage for the

 
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sake of present and future generations.  Your Committees believe
that the measure will help accomplish this goal of unity and
understanding.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by making the
Department of Land and Natural Resources, rather than the Hawaii
Community Development Authority, the leasing and expending agency
and by deleting the specific general obligation bond and
appropriation amount.

     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. 3157, as
amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3157, 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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