STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 628-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 2324
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2018
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2324, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SPACE CENTER FOR EXPLORATION SYSTEMS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Properly placing PISCES within the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism rather than as an agency attached to the Department's Office of Aerospace Development; and
(2) Changing the membership of the Board of Directors of PISCES by removing the Executive Director of the Space Center and adding the Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Your Committee finds that while this measure removes the PISCES program entirely from the auspices of the University of Hawaii at Hilo, many of the ongoing activities will still involve the University and, as such, its voice on the Board by the Chancellor of the University of Hawaii at Hilo is instrumental in helping to promote synergy and coordination of activities between the two closely aligned entities.
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. 2324, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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