STAND. COM. REP. NO.  178-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2591

      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 Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2591 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to designate fifty acres at the University of Hawaii, West Oahu for the creation of a creative media technology campus.

The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, High Technology Development Corporation, University of Hawaii – West Oahu, Kapolei Chamber of Commerce, and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation provided comments.  An individual provided testimony in opposition.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring the University of Hawaii System to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the status of the creative media technology campus, as well as copies of any memorandum of agreement entered into; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2591, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2591, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair