STAND. COM. REP. NO. 577

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1586

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1586 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the University of Hawaii (UH) to transfer funds from the Student Scholarship and Assistance Special Fund to its Tuition and Fees Special Fund.

The UH, UH Student Caucus, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill will allow UH to phase out part of its tuition waiver program and implement a scholarship program at no cost to the State.

Your Committee has amended this bill by allowing scholarship revenue to be received by the Tuition and Fees Special Fund.

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. 1586, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1586, 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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TOMMY WATERS, Chair