STAND. COM. REP. 2831

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2067

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2067 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to match funds obtained through grants received from the National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.

Since joining the Program in 2000, the university has received numerous grants. The program is viewed as a "model" federal/state/university partnership that helps researchers and institutions improve their research capacity by helping to make them more competitive in obtaining grants from federal, state, and private sector agencies. In three years, Hawaii has received approximately $39,000,000 in funding from the Program's Institutional Development Award program. Appropriating matching funds will continue the successful efforts of the university with the Program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by removing and leaving blank the amount of the appropriation in order to move the bill forward while the Legislature continues to work on the state budget.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2067, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2067, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair