Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2264, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate general funds to the University of Hawaii for a master of social work degree program delivered through a distance education format.

Your Committee finds that the School of Social Work at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has been providing an outreach graduate program to the neighbor islands over the past fifteen years. However, funding for the program is now in jeopardy. The school can no longer continue the outreach program without additional funding.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2264, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.