STAND. COM. REP. NO.  682-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2045

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2045 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ESTABLISHING A GLOBAL YOUTH CENTER,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to statutorily establish a global youth center under the University of Hawaii (UH) that will generate and link an international framework in which youth from around the world may become actively engaged in the attainment of world peace, environmental sustainability, and human and economic productivity for future generations.

     The Asia Pacific Education Program of the East-West Center, Reford-McCandless International, United National Association of the United States of America Hawaii Division, and many concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  UH supported the intent of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2045 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and International Affairs,

____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair