Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2051 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Chancellor of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Director of Capital Improvements of the University of Hawaii, University of Hawaii Student Caucus, Student Body President of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Treasurer of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Professional Studies senator of the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Estate of James Campbell, Directions Corporation, seven neighbor island students of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu pursuing their degrees through distance learning, a student of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu from Makakilo, and five alumni of the University of Hawaii-West Oahu.

Your Committees find that the University of Hawaii-West Oahu has been in existence for over twenty-seven years, graduated over 3,000 students, and still has no permanent campus. It is time to construct one, especially in light of the fact that the Leeward Coast of Oahu is the fastest growing region of the State and the nucleus of a second major urban area on Oahu. To provide higher educational opportunities for this area, a full-fledged branch of the University of Hawaii should be established.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2051 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.