STAND. COM. REP. NO. 168-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1782
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred
H.B. No. 1782 entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
University of Hawaii at Hilo for academic and counseling support
services.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure
from the University of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that approximately half of UH Hilo's
student population of 2,800 is comprised of individuals from
disadvantaged backgrounds.  Your Committee further finds that
this bill, which is designed to assist academically under-
prepared, low-income, first-generation, and non-traditional
college students at UH Hilo, will help to increase these
students' college retention and graduation rates, thereby further
helping to meet the professional and technological workforce
needs of the State.  Your Committee finds that a skilled
workforce will assist in improving Hawaii's economic development
by serving as an incentive in attracting new businesses to the
State.


 
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     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by:

     (1)  Changing the amount appropriated from $125,000 to
          $80,000; and

     (2)  Making the appropriation applicable only to fiscal year
          2000-2001.

     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. 1782, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1782, 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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                                   DAVID MORIHARA, Chair

 
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