STAND. COM. REP. NO.1269
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 549
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 549, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PROGRAMS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to establish manufacturing extension programs to improve the performance of business enterprises in Hawaii.
The Office of the Special Advisor for Technology Development, Hawaii Technology Trade Association, Hawaii Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Oahu Economic Development Board, Oils of Aloha, Associates + Jean Williams, and Etched in Glass, LLC, submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Appropriating funds from the Employment and Training Fund rather than from general revenues;
(2) Changing the expending agency from DBEDT to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 549, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 549, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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