CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 14-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2014

RE:    S.B. No. 2742

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

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. 2742, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PACIFIC-ASIA INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY,"

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 initiate a revolutionary and innovative public and private partnership to be known as the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability.

     Your Committee on Conference finds that the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability is envisioned to provide an opportunity for a new generation of leaders to emerge who have the ability to learn from emerging trends and to meet global challenges.  The Institute's multi-disciplinary and multi-sector approach to community resilience addresses a blind spot in the global discourse of how nations and the people in each nation respond to a wave of disruptive change that permeates throughout the world.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the creation of a new chapter in statute, and instead enacting the language as session law;

     (2)  Deleting references to establishment of the Institute as a nonprofit entity under chapter 414D, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

     (3)  Designating the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to act as the State's liaison to assist the Institute in carrying out its duties;

     (4)  Making discretionary, rather than mandatory, certain activities of the Institute and the Institute's pursuit of funding from various entities;

     (5)  Making the Institute eligible for grants and subsidies under chapter 42F;

     (6)  Changing the effective date to upon approval; and

     (7)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2742, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2742, S.D. 1, 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

____________________________ K. MARK TAKAI, Co-Chair	____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair
____________________________ TY J.K. CULLEN, Co-Chair	____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Co-Chair