STAND. COM. REP. NO. 753________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1660
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1660, H.D. 1, 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 at Manoa submitted testimony in
support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing the
appropriation with $1 for purposes of further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1660, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1660, H.D.
2.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair