CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 180

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2007

RE:    S.B. No. 1922

       S.D. 2

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam and Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1922, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CREATIVE MEDIA,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to develop a permanent facility for the Academy for Creative Media;

     (2)  Appropriate funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and to Honolulu Community College to develop a digital media incubator facility; and

     (3)  Establish and appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii and Honolulu Community College for a Music and Enterprise Learning Experience Program and a music and entertainment business training center at Honolulu Community College.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Making corrections to student and fundraising statistics related to the Academy for Creative Media;

     (2)  Authorizing a thirty-five year lease of the existing public broadcasting facility and studio on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus to PBS Hawaii; provided that PBS Hawaii shall be responsible for renovation of the facility and shall provide forty per cent of the net usable square footage of the facility to the Academy for Creative Media through a written memorandum of understanding, and appropriating $2,870,000 in fiscal year 2007-2008 and $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2008-2009 for the equipment and installation suitable for the academy for creative media programs, costs associated with handicapped compliance, and common area spaces of the PBS Hawaii facility and studio;

     (3)  Deleting the appropriation for planning, design, and construction of a permanent facility for the Academy of Creative Media;

     (4)  Deleting the authorization and appropriation for a digital media incubator facility;

     (5)  Appropriating $150,000 in fiscal year 2007-2008 and the same sum in fiscal year 2008-2009 for MELE; and

     (6)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2007.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1922, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1922, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Co-Chair	____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair
____________________________ KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Co-Chair	____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Co-Chair
____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair	____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Co-Chair
____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Co-Chair