Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1906 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the University of Hawaii (UH) to refund tuition to any member of the Hawaii National Guard or military reserves who is ordered to active duty for more than sixty days during a semester.

UH, the Department of Defense, and the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this bill will help to reduce the financial burden placed on those members of the National Guard and United States Military Reserves who are called into active duty. However, your Committee notes that this bill does not cover full- time members of the military who are unable to attend school due to their military obligations.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 1906, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1906, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs.