STAND. COM. REP. NO.  928

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 571

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 571, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to conduct outreach and education statewide on emergency management and disaster preparedness.

The Department of Emergency Management of the City and County of Honolulu, Island Preparedness Group, Ewa Emergency Preparedness Committee, and two concerned individuals supported this measure.  The University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program offered comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 571, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair