STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1045-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2610

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2610, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to continue to support Hawaii's manufacturing industry by appropriating funds to the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation to continue their Manufacturing Grant Program, as well as for the operations and administration of the Program.

Aloha Edibles, Inc.; Aloha Shoyu Company, Ltd.; The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Hawai‘i Farm Bureau; Hawaii Food Industry Association; Hawaii Kai Corporation; Hawaii Venture Capital Association; Hyperspective; KYD, Inc. dba k. yamada distributors; Kona Brewing Co.; Kuehnle AgroSystems Inc.; Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc.; Mana Up Labs, LLC; Maui Chamber of Commerce; Meadow Gold Dairies; Oceanit; and two concerned individuals supported this measure. Hawaii Technology Development Corporation offered comments for this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amount appropriated to an unspecified amount; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2610, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2610, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair