STAND. COM. REP. 450

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 418

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 418 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii (UH) for teacher education instructors at UH-Manoa and UH-Hilo.

UH submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that at a cost to the State of approximately $60,000 each, each position hired at UH for teacher education considerably expands the State's capacity to train new teachers. As Hawaii and the rest of the country are faced with an acute teacher shortage, it is critical that the State find ways to train more quality teachers, especially since recent budget cuts threaten to reduce UH's teacher education capacity.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Increasing from six to 17.5 the number of instructional faculty positions for UH-Manoa; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 418, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 418, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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K. MARK TAKAI, Chair