Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2066 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to place the Hawaii Medical Education Special Fund under the control of the University of Hawaii administration.

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

Your Committee finds that, currently, none of the University of Hawaii's special funds are established in the state treasury or administered independently. This measure would allow the Hawaii Medical Education special fund to be established and administered in a manner that is consistent with other University special funds.

Your Committee has amended the measure by adding a provision transferring control over the Hawaii Medical Education Special Fund from the Medical Education Council to the University of Hawaii.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2066, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2066, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.