Makes appropriation for 2001 conference.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The Millennium Project, The Conference in The Year One 2001 is a follow up to The Millennium Young People's Congress which was held in Honolulu in 1999. The purpose of The Conference in the Year One 2001 is to seek ways to bring peace and non-violence to the third millennium as part of the United Nation's Decade of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence. The group dynamics among international activists and young people will bring new solutions and plans for ways to achieve world harmony and peace. This is the first conference of a planned ten-year annual conference sequence to coincide with the United Nations program which partly sponsors the Millennium Project.

The sub-theme for this year's conference is the "International Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations", which is the suggestion of Noble Peace Prize laureates. The honorary chair for The Conference in the Year One 2001 is governor Benjamin Cayetano, and the honorary co-chairs are lieutenant governor Maize Hirono, mayor Jeremy Harris, and former governor John Waihee and Lynne Madden, co-chairs of the Hawaii Millennium Commission.

The legislature finds that The Conference in the Year One

2001 will facilitate economic development for the State as a

result of attendant publicity and the revenue impact on tourism.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, for The Millennium Project, The Conference in the Year One 2001, to be held in Honolulu in 2001.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of youth services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.