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. 2546 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii (UH) for capital improvement projects (CIPs).

UH, UH Student Caucus, and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee notes that the student housing project for UH-Manoa is to be funded through revenue bonds.

Your Committee has amended this bill by adding the substantive contents of H.B. No. 1722 which contains CIPs for the benefit of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at UH-Manoa.

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. 2546, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2546, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.