STAND. COM. REP. NO.  141-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1824

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1824 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRESERVATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources of the University of Hawaii to restore and preserve its collection of historic relief maps of the Hawaiian Islands.

The University of Hawaii, Department of Botany of the University of Hawaii, and many concerned individuals supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the amount appropriated for the restoration and preservation of historic relief maps of the Hawaiian Islands to an unspecified amount; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2525, to encourage further discussion.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Higher Education respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $250,000 for the purposes of restoring and preserving historic relief maps of the Hawaiian Islands.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1824, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1824, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair