STAND. COM. REP. NO. 258

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 553
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Technology, to which was
referred S.B. No. 553 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OKINAWAN CENTENNIAL
     CELEBRATION COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $200,000 to
the Okinawan Centennial Celebration Commission.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Hawaii United Okinawa Association.

     Your Committee finds that January 8, 2000, will mark the one
hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the first Okinawan to
Hawaii, and establishment of the oldest community of Okinawan
descent outside of Okinawa.

     Your Committee further finds that S.C.R. No. 159, H.D. 1,
1998, established the Okinawan Centennial Celebration Commission
and charged the Commission with planning for the celebration's
statewide events.  Your Committee is in support of the work of
the Commission and its impressive list of events planned in honor
of the Okinawan people in Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Education and Technology that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of S.B. No. 553 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Education and
                                   Technology,



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                                   DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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