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 S.B. No. 2067, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an unspecified sum to the University of Hawaii (UH) to match funds obtained through grants received from the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.

UH testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting $1 as state matching funds to encourage further discussion.

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 S.B. No. 2067, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2067,

S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.