Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2912 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for the promotion of aquaculture and commercial fisheries.

Your Committee finds that these funds will assist the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority and the Coastal Zone Management Institute at Keaukaha in their development of an implementation schedule and outreach for a new and innovative science center of learning.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2912, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2912, S.D. 1.