Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 782 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to expand the Future Flight Hawaii Space Camp Program (Program).

The University of Hawaii at Hilo submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA), Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT), and the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium (HSGC) supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

Since the Program is currently managed by HSGC, it will be administratively simpler if the funds are allocated directly to HSGC via the UH budget rather than DBEDT. In addition, since the Program is serving mostly in-state students rather than tourists, the matching fund requirement from HTA is not necessary.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 782, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 782, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.