STAND. COM. REP. NO.  11

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 452

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 452 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to assist the children of Hawaii veterans who were injured, disabled, declared a prisoner of war or missing in action, or killed while serving their country, by granting these children up to eight semesters of tuition waivers at the University of Hawaii.

 

     The University of Hawaii opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii in 2006 created a comprehensive financial assistance program for needy students.  The new program eliminated much of the existing tuition waiver program, which created entitlements regardless of need, and did not allow campuses to accurately assess their revenues or budgets.

 

     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this bill to require an applicant for a tuition waiver to demonstrate financial need.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 452, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 452, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair