Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 557 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of, and appropriate, $5,000,000 in general obligation bonds for each of the fiscal years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 to support the relocation of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.

The Polynesian Voyaging Society and Eye on Makai submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Hawaii Community Development Authority, Bishop Museum, and one individual testified in support of this measure, but recommended an amendment to clarify that this bill pertains only to the relocation of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Science Learning Center to Kakaako Makai.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 557, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 557, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.