STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1187

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Higher Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to implement the higher education statutory analysis interim study group's proposals to recodify the statutes relating to the University of Hawaii and higher education.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Interim President of the University of Hawaii.

Your Committees find that this measure improves the organizational framework of statutes relating to higher education and the University of Hawaii and provides clarity and consistency to the statutes.

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. 1, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair