STAND. COM. REP. NO. 404

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 460

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 460 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CENTER FOR OKINAWAN STUDIES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for the hiring of one full-time equivalent librarian position for the Okinawan collection at the University of Hawaii at Manoa library.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaii System and three individuals.

     Your Committees find that the collection of Okinawa-related literature and resources at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is the largest and most comprehensive collection outside of Japan.  This measure will allow the University of Hawaii at Manoa to hire one full-time librarian to oversee and further develop the collection.

     Your Committees note that the position to be funded by this measure will require approximately $60,000 plus fringe benefits.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 460 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Technology and the Arts,

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair