Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 912, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys for the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network to help small businesses grow through management-force training.

Your Committee finds that the small business sector of the State's economy is in need of much assistance. The Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network helps the business sector by providing consulting and training to existing small businesses and new ventures. The only statewide business assistance organization in Hawaii, the Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network provides consulting and training to more than two thousand businesses annually and has provided these services since 1990.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the amount appropriated to facilitate further discussion on this matter.

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 H.B. No. 912, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 912, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.