STAND. COM. REP. NO. 151

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1660
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred
H.B. No. 1660 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to pay for
utilities for the Community Colleges of the University of Hawaii
system.

     The University of Hawaii Community Colleges testified in
support of this bill.

     Your Committee finds that electricity costs for the
Community Colleges have steadily increased in recent years due to
rate increases, new program demands, and new facilities
requirements.  As a result, the Community Colleges require
additional funding to meet critical shortages in electricity
funding.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting specific
appropriation amounts for electricity funding for fiscal years
1999-2000 and 2000-2001.

     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. 1660, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second

 
 
 
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Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1660, 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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                                   DAVID MORIHARA, Chair