Bill Text: HI HB1555 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: UH Hilo; Marine Protected Areas

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1555 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1555-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  84

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1555

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1555 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help encourage responsible and culturally-relevant marine stewardship by authorizing the University of Hawaii (UH) at Hilo to establish a research program to work with the federal government over the stewardship of marine protected areas.

 

     The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  UH supported this measure with amendments.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.  A concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including the stewardship of aquaculture under the purview of the research program.

 

     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. 1555, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1555, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ SCOTT NISHIMOTO, Chair