STAND. COM. REP. NO.267

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1214

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Higher Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1214 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH-Hilo) to provide for staffing, programs, and planning expenses for a new facility for the Hawaiian Language College (college).

Testimony in support of this bill was received from Aha Punana Leo. Testimony in support of the intent of this bill was received from UH-Hilo.

Your Committees find that promoting the study of the Hawaiian language is a matter of statewide concern since it is an official language of the State and its study is required by the State's constitution. Many of the training activities carried out by the college are found nowhere else and serve isolated areas and populations, which would otherwise have no access to them. Although the college has received considerable grants, without the funding previously promised by the Legislature it will not be able to meet its full potential.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1214 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair

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ROY TAKUMI, Chair