STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2712

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2742

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2742 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability as a center for studies of environmental sustainability, global leadership, and critical community continuity.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Hawaiian Telcom.  The Department of the Attorney General, the State Office of Planning, and the University of Hawaii Center for Conservation Research and Training submitted written comments on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the Pacific-Asia Institute for Resilience and Sustainability will provide research and training opportunities for future leaders to address the risks to Hawaii and the Pacific-Asia region from natural and man-made hazards and to develop solutions for sustainable economic growth.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

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

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair